Lord Clerk Register

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The Lord Clerk Register is the oldest surviving Great Office of State in Scotland, with origins in the 13th century.

The office formerly had three sets of functions: responsibility for public registers and records, Commissioner for the Regalia and Keeper of the Signet. Only the latter two remain and the office is now largely ceremonial in nature and carries no salary or special privileges.

The Lord Clerk Register (Scotland) Act 1879 provided that the Lord Clerk Register should continue as an Officer of State, but all his rights and duties with regard to the preservation of the public registers and records were transferred to the Deputy Clerk Register (now the Keeper of the Records of Scotland). The Lord Clerk Register remained responsible for the election of representative peers of Scotland until these were abolished in 1963.

The role has been largely honorific since 1806, when a Deputy Clerk Register was appointed.

The Lord Clerk Register is one of the Commissioners of the Regalia, under a Royal Commission of 1818, responsible for Scotland's Crown Jewels. In practice this responsibility was delegated to a deputy, then to the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer, and now to Historic Scotland. In 1996 the Commissioners were given additional responsibility for the Stone of Destiny under another Royal Warrant.

The role of Lord Clerk Register is combined with the role of Keeper of the Signet, which was given to the Lord Clerk Register in 1817.

The current Lord Clerk Register is Francis David Charteris, 12th Earl of Wemyss and March.

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