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THE SCOTS STATUTES REVISED

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VOLUME X

THE

PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES
AFFECTING SCOTLAND

1898-1900

61 & 62 TO 63 & 64 VICTORIA

IN SO FAR AS UNREPLALED BY SUBSEQUENT LEGISLATION UP
TO AND INCLUDING THE ACTS OF THE SESSION

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SCOTS STATUTES REVISED,

1707 TO 1900.

STATUTES OF QUEEN VICTORIA.

61 & 62 VICTORIA, 1898.

CHAPTER VIII.

THE SHERIFFS TENURE OF OFFICE (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1898. (Sect. 4.) AN ACT to amend the Law in regard to the Tenure of Office of Sheriffs in Scotland. [1st July 1898.]

1. Removal of SHERIFFS BY ORDER OF SECRETARY FOR SCOTLAND.-Upon a report prepared at the instance of the Secretary for Scotland by the Lord President of the Court of Session and the Lord Justice Clerk for the time being, declaring that a sheriff in Scotland is by reason of inability or misbehaviour unfit for his office, it shall be lawful for the Secretary for Scotland to issue an order for his removal from office, provided always that such order shall lie before both Houses of Parliament for a period of four consecutive weeks while Parliament is sitting, and if either House of Parliament within that period resolve that such order ought not to take effect, the same shall be of no effect, but otherwise shall come into operation at the expiration of the said month. 2. ANNUITIES.-If a sheriff is removed under the preceding section before he has completed ten years' service on the ground that he is by reason of inability unfit for his office, it shall be lawful for the Treasury to grant him an annuity of such amount and for such period as they shall consider just in all the circumstances, but in no case exceeding three-tenths of the salary payable to such sheriff, and any such annuity shall be charged upon and payable out of the same fund and in the same manner as annuities to sheriffs are paid and charged under the first section of the Public Revenue and Consolidated Fund Charges Act, 1854.

3. APPLICATION OF ACT.-This Act shall not apply to sheriffs substitute.

4. SHORT TITLE.-This Act may be cited as the Sheriffs Tenure of Office (Scotland) Act, 1898.

CHAPTER IX.

THE RESERVE FORCES AND MILITIA ACT, 1898. (Sect. 4.)

AN ACT to amend the Law relating to the Reserve Forces and Militia.

[1st July 1898.]

1. LIABILITY OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMY RESERVE TO BE CALLED OUT ON PERMANENT SERVICE. Any man belonging to the first class of the army reserve, whose character on transfer to the army reserve is good, shall, if he so agrees in writing, be liable during

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