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SHERIFFS (IRELAND) ACT 1835 - SECT 5

Sheriff and under-sheriff shall take oath of office before a commissioner for taking affidavits in the Exchequer, etc.

5. Each and every person so appointed sheriff and under-sheriff as aforesaid
shall before he enters upon the execution of his office make a declaration
which shall in the case of a sheriff be in the Form No.3 in the Second
Schedule and shall in the case of an under-sheriff be in the Form No.4 in the
Second Schedule and every such declaration shall be fairly written on
parchment without being subject to stamp-duty and signed by the declarant and
may be made before a Justice of the High Court or before the proper officer or
before any Commissioner for taking affidavits and the same shall be
transmitted to the proper officer who is hereby required to file the same
among the records of his office for which he shall be entitled to demand and
have the sum of [25p] and no more, and no sheriff or under-sheriff shall be
entitled to act as such until such declaration shall be lodged with the proper
officer on pain of forfeiture for so acting of a sum of one hundred pounds....

Ss.645 rep. by SLR 1874; SLR 1890 (No.2); SLR 1891; 1947 c.44 s.39 sch.2; SI
1949/1836 art.23 sch. (I p.1261); SLR (NI) 1954; 1969 c.30 (NI) s.132 sch.6;
1978 c.23 s.122(2) sch.7 Pt.I



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