Public Records (Scotland) Act 1809

And whereas it is of great importance that the record of writs passing under the great seal, and which is kept by the Director of Chancery, should be in all respects complete, authentic, and authoritative; and that an Act of sederunt touching that record was passed by the lords of council and session on the eleventh day of February one thousand eight hundred and eight, to which it is expedient to give the force and effect of a public law: the Keeper of the Great Seal or his deputies, instead of delivering the sealed charters or other writs to the persons by whom these have been expede, shall forthwith deliver the same, together with the warrants thereof, to the Director of Chancery or his deputy, by whom, after making the proper entries of the sealing in the record, the writs shall be delivered respectively to the persons by whom they shall have been expede; F1and the aforesaid warrants, together with the register in which the relative writs have been recorded, shall be transferred for preservation from the Chancery Department to the Record Department of H.M. General Register House from time to time as the Keeper of the Registers and Records of Scotland may deem proper.