§ If any occupier shall fail to remove from a dwelling-house upon the expiration of notice of removal in terms of this Act, any person authorised by law to pursue an action of removing may present to the sheriff or magistrate a summary application for removing, and a decree pronounced on such summary application shall have the full force and effect of a decree of removing and warrant of ejection. The production of a post-office letter registration receipt, or of a certificate from the messenger-at-arms or sheriff officer, or other competent officer of court shall be sufficient evidence of such notice having been duly given. The production of a certificate signed by the owner that the occupier is in arrear with rent for a period of seven days shall be sufficient evidence thereof. For the purposes of this Section and of Section eleven the term "magistrate" shall include any judge of police appointed and acting under Section sixty-two of the Town Councils (Scotland) Act, 1900.
§ Amendments made: After the word "a" ["a dwelling-house"] to insert the word "small."
1713§ To leave out the words, "For the purposes of this Section and of Section 11 the term 'magistrate' should include any judge of police appointed and acting under Section 62 of the Town Councils (Scotland) Act, 1900."—[Mr. Ure.]