Scotland
In Scotland registration districts were introduced in 1855, and registration counties were used in subsequent censuses.
33 counties are used in Scotland for land registration purposes.
Land registration by county was introduced by the Land Registers (Scotland) Act 1868. The Act provided that in future all writs relating to lands and heritages in Scotland should be recorded in "presentment books", with a different series for each county. For the purposes of the Act the Barony and Regality of Glasgow and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright were to be treated as counties. There are two paired counties that were under a single sheriff in 1868: Ross & Cromarty and Orkney & Zetland.
The 1868 legislation was replaced by the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979. The 1979 Act allowed for the date and areas of operation to be fixed by statutory instrument. It was brought into operation on a phased basis using the 1868 counties, starting with the County of Renfrew on 6 April 1981. The implementation was completed on 1 April 2003 when the final tranche of registration counties were operational.
| Registration county | Operational from |
|---|---|
| County of Renfrew | 6 April 1981 |
| County of Dumbarton | 4 October 1982 |
| County of Lanark | 3 January 1984 |
| County of the Barony and Regality of Glasgow | 30 September 1985 |
| County of Clackmannan | 1 October 1992 |
| County of Stirling | 1 April 1993 |
| County of West Lothian | 1 October 1993 |
| County of Fife | 1 April 1995 |
| County of Aberdeen | 1 April 1996 |
| County of Kincardine | 1 April 1996 |
| County of Ayr | 1 April 1997 |
| County of Dumfries | 1 April 1997 |
| County of Kirkcudbright | 1 April 1997 |
| County of Wigtown | 1 April 1997 |
| County of Angus | 1 April 1999 |
| County of Kinross | 1 April 1999 |
| County of Perth | 1 April 1999 |
| County of Berwick | 1 October 1999 |
| County of East Lothian | 1 October 1999 |
| County of Peebles | 1 October 1999 |
| County of Roxburgh | 1 October 1999 |
| County of Selkirk | 1 October 1999 |
| County of Argyll | 1 April 2000 |
| County of Bute | 1 April 2000 |
| County of Midlothian | 1 April 2001 |
| County of Inverness | 1 April 2002 |
| County of Nairn | 1 April 2002 |
| County of Banff | 1 April 2003 |
| County of Caithness | 1 April 2003 |
| County of Moray | 1 April 2003 |
| Counties of Orkney and Zetland | 1 April 2003 |
| County of Ross and Cromarty | 1 April 2003 |
| County of Sutherland | 1 April 2003 |
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