(1)A minister of the Church of Scotland who has been appointed to a charge without limit of time or for a period of years to officiate as minister shall, in any parish in which such charge or any part thereof is situated, have the like power as regards the notarial execution of wills or other testamentary writings as is conferred by subsection (1) of section eighteen of the [14 & 15 Geo. 5. c. 27.] Conveyancing (Scotland) Act, 1924, on a parish minister acting in his own parish.
(2)A certificate by one of the principal clerks, or the principal clerk if there shall be only one, of the General Assembly, stating the parish in which the charge of any such minister is situated shall be accepted as conclusive evidence thereof.
(3)In the foregoing provisions of this section the expression " minister" shall include an assistant and successor or a colleague and successor of such minister.
(4)Any reference in subsection (1) of section eighteen of the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act, 1924, to an assistant and successor shall be deemed to include a reference to a colleague and successor.