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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Act of Sederunt)

This Act of Sederunt makes new provision in relation to the forms, subscription, publication, taking of evidence and issue of extract in chancery petitions.

It revokes paragraph 3 of the Act of Sederunt (Edictal Citations, Commissary Petitions and Petitions of Service) 1971 which made provision for publication of petitions of service.

It also repeals sections 29, 30 and 34, and parts of section 33, of the Titles to Land Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1868, and part of section 10 of the Conveyancing (Scotland) Act 1874, which provide for the form, publication and procedure with respect to petitions for service for which new provision is made in this Act of Sederunt.