{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registers-scotland-act-1868/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registers-scotland-act-1868/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/31-32/64",
  "legislation_title": "Land Registers (Scotland) Act 1868",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registers-scotland-act-1868",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Competent to record writs in other county or counties to which they refer by new warrant.",
  "text": "Where any writ contains land or heritages in more than one county and application has not been made for registration in relation to all the counties to which it applies, the registration of such writ shall, notwithstanding, as regards the county or counties mentioned in the application, and in the minute books and register volumes of which county or counties it has been recorded, or a memorandum thereof entered, be effectual; and it shall be competent afterwards to present such writ for registration, and to minute and register such writ in the register of any other county or counties to which such writ applies...; and in the case of such subsequent registration it shall not be necessary to engross the writ at length in the division of the register applicable to such county or counties, but the same may be effected by the insertion of a memorandum in such division of the register in the manner herein-before provided for, and such subsequent registration shall be effectual as regards the county or counties to which it applies , of and from the date of such subsequent registration.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 substituted (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), Sch. 12 para. 7(3)(a) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 5 substituted (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), Sch. 12 para. 7(3)(b) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 substituted (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), Sch. 12 para. 7(3)(c) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 repealed (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), Sch. 12 para. 7(3)(d), Sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 substituted (S.) (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), Sch. 12 para. 7(3)(e) (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/64/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:57:53.919791+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}