58.This section enables the Lord President permanently to transfer sheriffs principal, sheriffs, and summary sheriffs between sheriffdoms. (So far as sheriffs are concerned, this power re-enacts the existing provision in section 14(4) of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971.)
The Act Part 1 - Sheriff Courts Deployment of judiciary Section 32 – Power to re-allocate sheriffs principal, sheriffs and summary sheriffs between sheriffdoms