Land Registry Service

Land Registers of Scotland inherited its county based operation from the old Sasine Register system. Each county has its own operational date that is a date when the modern land registration started in that particular county. Transactions prior to that date are not registered in the Land Register. Operational dates are as follows:

01 Renfrew 6 April 1981
02 Dumbarton 4 October 1982
03 Lanark 3 January 1984
04 Glasgow 30 September 1985
05 Clackmannan 1 October 1992
06 Stirling 1 April 1993
07 West Lothian 1 October 1993
08 Fife 1 April 1995
09 Aberdeen 1 April 1996
10 Kincardine 1 April 1996
11 Ayr 1 April 1997
12 Dumfries 1 April 1997
13 Kirkcudbright 1 April 1997
14 Wigtown 1 April 1997
15 Angus 1 April 1999
16 Kinross 1 April 1999
17 Perth 1 April 1999
18 Berwick 1 October 1999
19 East Lothian 1 October 1999
20 Peebles 1 October 1999
21 Roxburgh 1 October 1999
22 Selkirk 1 October 1999
23 Argyll 1 April 2000
24 Bute 1 April 2000
25 Midlothian 1 April 2001
26 Inverness 1 April 2002
27 Nairn 1 April 2002
28 Banff 1 April 2003
29 Caithness 1 April 2003
30 Moray 1 April 2003
31 Orkney and Zetland 1 April 2003
32 Ross and Cromarty 1 April 2003
33 Sutherland 1 April 2003