
1 
This Order may be cited as the Registers of Scotland (Information and Access, etc.) Miscellaneous Amendment Order 2022 and comes into force on 1 October 2022.
2 
After article 4 of the Registers of Scotland (Information and Access) Order 2014 (public access to a register under the management and control of the Keeper) insert—“
5. 

(1) Where a person applies to the Keeper for an extract of a deed registered in the Books of Council and Session the Keeper must issue the extract, if—
(a) such fee as is payable for issuing it is paid, or
(b) arrangements satisfactory to the Keeper are made for payment of that fee.
(2) In the case of a deed registered in the Books of Council and Session in accordance with regulation 8 of the Electronic Documents (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (registration of other electronic documents), the Keeper—
(a) must issue the extract as an electronic document, but
(b) may, if the applicant requests that it be issued as a paper document, issue the extract in that form instead.
(3) In all other cases, the Keeper—
(a) must issue the extract as a paper document, but
(b) may, if the applicant requests that it be issued as an electronic document, issue the extract in that form instead.
6. 
Where a person applies to the Keeper for an extract of a deed registered in the Register of Sasines, the Keeper may issue the extract as an electronic document if (and only if) the applicant requests that it be issued in that form.”.
3 

(1) The Writs Execution (Scotland) Act 1877 is amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) In section 5 (extracts of deeds registered in the Books of Council and Session, and Register of Sasines)—
(a) for “be impressed with” substitute “bear”,
(b) omit “to be kept in the respective offices”.
(3) In section 7 (extracts and transmission of records of Books of Council and Session)—
(a) omit “, in terms of the twelfth section of the Public Records (Scotland) Act 1809,”,
(b) for “be impressed with” substitute “bear”,
(c) omit “to be kept in the office”.
TOM ARTHUR
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
30th June 2022