[1][2][3] Before promulgation, Acts of Adjournal are reviewed and may be commented upon by the Criminal Courts Rules Council.[1]: [s.
Before devolution, acts were made as United Kingdom statutory instruments.[4][5]: [s.
The act provided that "the judges of that court [...] regulate the inferior officers thereof, and order every other thing concerning the said court," a provision which remains in force and which created the distinction between Acts of Adjournal and Acts of Sederunt.
That reformation, while now repealed, is replicated by the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, which further provides that the Lord President of the Court of Session is to hold the office of Lord Justice General.[7]: [s.
44] [1]: [s. 1] The Treaty of Union between Scotland and England, which formed the Kingdom of Great Britain, required that the High Court of Justiciary "remain in all time coming, as it is now constituted by the laws of [the Kingdom of Scotland]."