Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Act of Sederunt)
This Act of Sederunt provides for—
the keeping of the Commissary Court Books in a microfilm form with a computer index at a centralised location in the hands of the commissary clerk in Edinburgh, (paragraphs 3, 4, and 5);
the authorisation by the sheriff principal of and the subsequent transmission by the sheriff clerk of the existing Commissary Court Books to the commissary clerk, (paragraph 4);
the disposal of writs received by the commissary clerk from the sheriff clerk after they have been microfilmed and indexed, (paragraph 6);
the revocation of an Act of Sederunt which is unnecessary in the light of the Public Records (Scotland) Act 1937 and the advancement of photocopying technology, (paragraph 7).