{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/writs-execution-scotland-act-1877/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/writs-execution-scotland-act-1877/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/40-41/40",
  "legislation_title": "Writs Execution (Scotland) Act 1877",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/writs-execution-scotland-act-1877",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Extracts of deeds registered in the Books of Council and Session, and Register of Sasines, to be authenticated.",
  "text": "Extracts of all writs, deeds, or other documents of what nature soever, which may be registered in the Books of Council and Session, shall be equivalent to the registered writs, deeds, or other documents themselves, except where any writ, deed, or other document so registered shall be offered to be improven, and such extracts shall be signed on the last page thereof, by the keeper or assistant keeper of the register of deeds and probative writs and protests in the Books of Council and Session; and extracts of all writs registered in and issued from the office of the General Register of Sasines shall be signed, on the last page thereof, by the keeper of the said register, or by a deputy duly commissioned by him to that effect, and no further signature on any other page of such extracts shall be necessary. But each sheet of all such extracts shall bear an office seal or stamp ... of the said keepers; provided that it shall be necessary and sufficient in the case of marginal additions occurring in any extract that the same shall be authenticated by the signature of the officer certifying such extract.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 5 substituted (1.10.2022) by The Registers of Scotland (Information and Access, etc.) Miscellaneous Amendment Order 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/232), arts. 1, 3(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 5 omitted (1.10.2022) by virtue of The Registers of Scotland (Information and Access, etc.) Miscellaneous Amendment Order 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/232), arts. 1, 3(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Functions of Keeper of the General Register of Sasines now exercisable by Keeper of the Registers of Scotland: Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1928 (c. 34), s. 5 and Public Registers and Records (Scotland) Act 1948 (c. 57), s. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/40-41/40/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:46:17.057896+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."
}