Duties
The work of a sheriff principal is partly judicial and partly administrative, consisting broadly of the following:
- conventional judicial duties in the Sheriff courts;
- judicial and quasi-judicial work arising under various statutes;
- administrative functions in relation to the courts within a sheriff principal’s sheriffdom;
- miscellaneous statutory functions including powers of appointment;
- other powers of appointment;
- statutory and other appointments and functions by virtue of holding office as sheriff principal;
- miscellaneous advisory and consultative functions;
- ceremonial functions.
In terms of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 all of the sheriffs principal are Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses and serve on the Northern Lighthouse Board.
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