{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-leases-scotland-act-1857/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-leases-scotland-act-1857/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/20-21/26",
  "legislation_title": "Registration of Leases (Scotland) Act 1857",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-leases-scotland-act-1857",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Preferences regulated by date of registering or recording transfer.",
  "text": "All such leases executed after the passing of this Act, and all assignations of any such lease registered or recorded as aforesaid, assignations in security of any such lease recorded as aforesaid, and translations thereof, and all adjudications of such leases registered or recorded as aforesaid, or assignations in security, shall in competition be preferable according to their dates of registering or recording.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 12 inserted (S.) (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, Sch. 2 para. 9(a) (with s. 121, Sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 12 inserted (S.) (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, Sch. 2 para. 9(b) (with s. 121, Sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 12 inserted (S.) (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, Sch. 2 para. 9(c) (with s. 121, Sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 12 title inserted (S.) (8.12.2014) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, Sch. 2 para. 10 (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/20-21/26/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:16:02.217485+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."
}