Registration of Certain Writs (Scotland) Act 1891

1 Provisions in regard to the registration of certain writs in the General Register of Sasines for Scotland.

With respect to the registration of writs in the General Register of Sasines for Scotland, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say :—

(1) The orders of the Boundary Commissioners for Scotland made or to be made in pursuance of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889, notwithstanding the dates specified in such orders respectively, and notwithstanding the confirmation of any of such orders as provided in the recited Act, shall, for the purpose of regulating the registration of writs in the appropriate divisions of the General Register of Sasines for Scotland, and for that purpose only, come into operation on but not before the fifteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two :

(2) It shall not be necessary that separate divisions of the General Register of Sasines be kept for the counties of Orkney and Zetland:

(3) All enactments in this or any other Act and anything done thereunder affecting the registration of writs relating to any lands in Scotland shall be deemed and taken to apply to the registration of writs relating to the teinds of such lands :

(4) Nothing contained in this Act shall invalidate any writ recorded in the General Register of Sasines for Scotland before the passing of this Act, or affect injuriously any rights depending on such writs, or, except in so far as herein expressly provided, interfere with the operation of any order of the said Commissioners.