Registration of Leases (Scotland) Act 1877 (c. 36)

Registration of Leases (Scotland) Act 1877

1877 CHAPTER 36

An Act to amend "The Registration of Leases (Scotland) Act, 1857."

[6th August 1877]

WHEREAS an [20 & 21 Vict. c. 26.] Act was passed in the session holden in the twentieth and twenty-first years of Her Majesty (chapter twenty-six) to provide for the registration of long leases in Scotland and assignations thereof; and whereas it is expedient to amend the said Act:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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, as follows:

1 "Commissary" to be read in recited Act after "sheriff".

Section nineteen of the said recited Act shall be read as if the word "commissary" occurred therein immediately after the word " sheriff."

2 Act 49 G.3 c.42 not to be affected.

Nothing in this Act shall affect the provisions of an Act passed in the forty-ninth year of His late Majesty King George the Third (chapter forty-two) for the better regulating the public records of Scotland.

3 Short title.

This Act may be cited for all purposes as "The Registration of Leases (Scotland) Amendment Act, 1877."