Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000

78 Amendment of registration under section 61 on events affecting guardianship or death of adult S

(1) The Public Guardian shall—

(a) where under section 71(3)(a), 73(2)(a), 74(5)(a) or 75(3)(a) he enters in the register maintained by him under section 6(2)(b)(iv) prescribed particulars relating to a guardianship order in respect of which the appointment of the guardian was recorded or registered under section 61; or

(b) where an adult in respect of whom there was such a guardianship order has died,

apply forthwith to the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland for the recording of the interlocutor or other document vouching the event giving rise to the entry or, as the case may be, the certificate of the death or, as the case may be, the registering of the event or the death in the Land Register of Scotland.

(2) On an application under subsection (1), the Keeper shall, as appropriate—

(a) record the interlocutor or other document or certificate in the Register of Sasines and endorse it that it has been so recorded;

(b) update the title sheet of the heritable property accordingly.