{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registers-scotland-act-1868/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-registers-scotland-act-1868/section-6.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/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Provision for writs transmitted by post to general register of sasines.",
  "text": "Where an application for registration of a writ in the general register of sasines is transmitted by post the keeper of said register shall, upon the receipt of such application, cause the same to be acknowledged to the sender, and cause the writ to be presented... by a clerk in his office to be appointed by him for that purpose, and who shall be held as the ingiver of the writ; and such clerk shall . . . in the presentment book . . . enter the name of the sender; and such writ shall be recorded in the same manner as any other writ which is a traditional document presented for registration; and on the writ being ready for delivery . . ., the keeper shall transmit the writs to the sender by post; and where two or more such applications . . . shall be received by the keeper at the same time, the entries ... in the presentment book and minute book for the writs in respect of which such applications are made shall be of the same year, month, and day, and such writs shall be deemed and taken to be presented and registered contemporaneously.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 6 substituted (3.12.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/535), art. 1, Sch. para. 1(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 6 substituted (3.12.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/535), art. 1, Sch. para. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 6 inserted (3.12.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/535), art. 1, Sch. para. 1(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 6 repealed (28.11.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), ss. 71, 77(2), Sch. 12 para. 7(4), Sch. 13 Pt. 1 (with ss. 58, 62, 75); S.S.I. 2003/456, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words substituted by Public Registers and Records (Scotland) Act 1948 (c. 57), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words repealed by Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 (c. 33, SIF 31:3), Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 6 inserted (12.3.2018) by The Registers of Scotland (Digital Registration, etc.) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/72), regs. 1(1), 9(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 6 repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 14, s. 1(2); S.I. 1996/94, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 6 substituted (3.12.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/535), art. 1, Sch. para. 1(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in s. 6 omitted (3.12.2004) by virtue of Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/535), art. 1, Sch. para. 1(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 6 inserted (3.12.2004) by Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/535), art. 1, Sch. para. 1(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words substituted by Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 (c. 33, SIF 31:3), Sch. 1 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 6 power to amend conferred (S.) (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 38, 122, 123 (with s. 121, Sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/64/section/6",
    "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."
}