This document establishes the formal regulatory framework for the fees chargeable by Messengers-at-Arms in Scotland as of 1980. The text is a statutory instrument issued by the Scottish legal authorities to standardize costs associated with the execution of legal processes and the service of documents. It provides a clear financial schedule intended to ensure transparency and consistency in the professional conduct of these officers of the court.

Legal professionals and historians utilize this text as a primary source for understanding the administrative costs of the Scottish legal system during the late twentieth century. It is regarded as a technical reference document rather than a narrative work, serving primarily as a record of historical regulatory standards.