Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868

162 Court of Session may fix and regulate Fees.

It shall he lawful for the Court of Session from Time to Time to pass Acts of Sederunt fixing and regulating the Fees payable to Town Clerks and Keepers of Registers of Sasines in Burghs for and with respect to all Deeds, Conveyances, and Proceedings under this Act, and the recording of the same; and the said Court may either make a General Table of Pees which shall be applicable to all the Burghs in Scotland, or may make Special Tables of Pees which shall be applicable to any One or more of such Burghs, as they think fit; and the Tables of Pees applicable to each Burgh shall come into operation on the Death, Resignation, or Removal of any Town Clerk of such Burgh who was appointed prior to the Eighth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty; and it shall not be lawful for any Town Clerk, or the Keeper of the Register of Sasines of any Burgh, who shall have been appointed after the said Eighth. Day of March One thousand eight hundred and sixty, to demand or receive any higher Fees for or in respect of any Deeds or Conveyances or Proceedings under this Act, or the recording thereof, than the Fees specified in the Table which for the Time shall be applicable to such Burgh; and the said Court may meet for the Purpose of passing and may pass all such Acts of Sederunt and Rules of Court as they deem proper for carrying into effect the Purposes of this Act, and that either during Session or Vacation, and may from Time to Time repeal Acts of Sederunt and Rules of Court, or alter such Acts and Rules of Court and Tables of Fees Provided, that all Acts of Sederunt and Rules of Court passed under the Authority of this Act shall, within One Month after the Date thereof, be transmitted by the Lord President of the said Court to One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, that the same may be laid before both Houses of Parliament; and until such Act or Acts or Rule or Rules of Court shall be passed, all Acts of Sederunt and Rules of Court now in force passed under the Authority of any of the Acts of Parliament hereby repealed, and all Tables of Fees thereby sanctioned, shall remain in force as Acts of Sederunt, Rules of Court, and Tables of Fees for the Purposes of this Act.