Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1876

45 A calendar of confirmations and inventories to be published annually. U.K.

It shall be the duty of the commissary clerk of Edinburgh on or before the thirty-first day of December in every year to prepare and issue a printed calendar containing a list or register, alphabetically arranged, of all confirmations granted, and of all inventories given in, in cases in which from any cause confirmation shall not have been required in Scotland, in the year ending on the thirty-first day of December immediately preceding, specifying in each case [F1 the surname, forenames and addresses of the deceased as shown in the relative inventory; whether he died testate or intestate; and where and on what date confirmation was granted or the inventory was recorded]: Provided as follows:

(1) It shall be the duty of every sheriff clerk . . . F2 quarterly, on or before the first days of February, May, August, and November in each year, to furnish to the commissary clerk of Edinburgh such a list or register, with such particulars as aforesaid, of all confirmations and inventories granted or given in, within such sheriffdom in the quarters ending on the thirty-first day of December, the thirty-first day of March, the thirtieth day of June, and the thirtieth day of September immediately preceding respectively:

(2) A copy of every such calendar issued shall be sent by the commissary clerk of Edinburgh [F3 to the sheriff clerk of Lanarkshire at Glasgow] who shall keep the same in his office open for the inspection of the public on payment of such fee as may be fixed by act of sederunt, which the Court of Session are hereby authorised and required to pass:

(3) A copy of every issue of such calendar shall also be sent to the Lord Clerk Register . . . F4

(4) The cost of preparing and printing and issuing such calendar and of furnishing copies thereof to the persons to whom they are herein directed to be sent shall be defrayed out of moneys to be voted by Parliament.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by S.I. 1968/140, para. 2(a)

F2 Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (c. 56)

F3 Words substituted by S.I. 1968/140, para. 2(b)

F4 Words repealed by S.I. 1968/140, para. 2(c)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Power to vary s. 45 conferred by Sheriff Courts and Legal Officers (Scotland) Act 1927 (c. 35), s. 19