An Act for establishing Regulations respecting certain Parts, of the Proceedings in the Court of Session, and in the Court of Commissioners for Teinds, and respecting the Duties, Qualifications, and Emoluments of certain Clerks and other Officers of the said. Courts.
[28th May 1821]
WHEREAS an [48 G. 3. c. 151.] Act was passed in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act concerning the Administration of Justice in Scotland, and concerning Appeals to the House of Lords ; and an [50 G. 3. c. 112.] Act was passed in the Fiftieth Year of His said late Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for abridging the Form of extracting Decrees of the Court of Session in Scotland, and for the Regulation of certain Parts of the Proceedings of, that Court; and an [53 G. 3. c. 64.] Act was, passed in the Fifty-third Year of His said late Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for the better Regulation of the Court of Session in Scotland; and an [55 G. 3. c. 70.] Act was passed in the Fifty-fifth Year of His said late Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act for better regulating the Formation and Arrangement of the Judicial and other Records of the Court of Session in Scotland: And whereas by a Warrant under the Sign Manual of His Royal Highness The Prince Regent, acting in the Name and Behalf of His Majesty, dated the Eighth Day of February One thousand eight hundred and fifteen, Commissioners were appointed for inquiring into the Duties, Salaries, and Emoluments of the several Officers, Clerks, and Ministers of Justice of the Courts in Scotland, and for reporting what Regulations might be fit to be established respecting the same ; which Commissioners have accordingly made certain Reports, and the same have been laid before Parliament: And whereas it is expedient that the said Acts should in certain Particulars be amended and that certain Regulations should be established, which cannot be effected without the Authority of Parliament;
be it therefore enacted by the ting's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,