Judicial Statistics (Scotland) Act 1869
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1869 c. 33 |
| Year | 1869 |
Judicial Statistics (Scotland) Act, 1869
(32 & 33 Vict.) CHAP. 33.
An Act to provide for the Collection of Judicial Statistics in Scotland.
[26th July 1869]
Whereas it is expedient to make provision for the collection of the judicial statistics of Scotland, and for laying the same before Parliament: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited for all purposes as ‘TheJudicial Statistics (Scotland) Act, 1869.’
2 Schedules to be returned by clerks of courts and other public officers.
2. The following persons, viz.,—first, the clerks of the several courts of law, and of all courts administering civil or criminal justice, and second, keepers of records and other persons receiving remuneration for performing public duties in the civil service of Her Majesty, shall and are hereby required to fill up and transmit to the department for the collection of judicial statistics, before the end of the month of March in each year, such schedules relative to the business transacted in their respective offices during the preceding year as, subject to the following conditions and regulations, they shall from time to time receive from the superintendent of the said department.
3 Forms of schedules to be certified.
3. Each such schedule shall be in a form which has been certified under the signature of Her Majesty's Advocate for Scotland as having been approved of by him, and each sue form, with his signature attached thereto, shall be preserved in the chambers of the department for the collection of judicial statistics, where the same shall be patent to any clerk or other person who is bound to make a return under such form.
4 Provision for enforcement.
4. In case any person shall fail to fill up and return such schedule, or shall fail or neglect to do what is herein required of such person, or in case any obstruction shall arise in the execution of this Act, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty's Advocate for Scotland to apply by summary petition to the Court of Session; and in case any person shall consider himself...
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