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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-commissary-court-books-1992/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3256",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Commissary Court Books) 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-commissary-court-books-1992",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Act of Sederunt)\nThis Act of Sederunt provides for—\n(a) 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);\n(b) 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);\n(c) the disposal of writs received by the commissary clerk from the sheriff clerk after they have been microfilmed and indexed, (paragraph 6);\n(d) 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).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3256/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:08:11.541522+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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