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New Keeper of the Registers appointed
27/06/2003
Jim Meldrum, currently Director of Business Management
in the Crown Office, has been appointed as the new Keeper
of the Registers of Scotland to replace Alan Ramage who is
retiring.
Mr Meldrum, a garduate of Glasgow University, held a
number of senior posts in the Scottish Office and related
Departments, including as Deputy Director of the Scottish
Courts Administration, as Registrar General from 1994 to
1999 and as Director of Administrative Services in the
Executive. He will take up his new post on September 1.
On Alan Ramage, Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson
said:
"I want to thank Alan Ramage for his contribution as
Keeper of the Registers of Scotland over the last nine
years. He has overseen an important period of modernisation
in the registration of land and property in Scotland. I
wish him, and his successor, well."
Registers of Scotland is an Executive Agency with
responsibility for the maintenance of two national
registers of property ownership in Scotland, the Register
of Sasines, and the modern map-based Land Register and
other public registers.
It is a self-financing organisation from the fees it
charges for its registration and information services.
The Chief Executive of the Agency holds the statutory
office of Keeper of the Registers of Scotland.