Its purpose was to repeal obsolete enactments, to take into account changes in the law, and to facilitate the indexing of those acts in the Chronological Table of the Statutes and the Index to the Statutes.

Section 1 Repeals of Acts This section repealed a number of pre-Union acts of the Parliament of Scotland, which were declared to be obsolete, spent or unnecessary, or to have been superseded by other enactments, either in full or in part.

It was expressly provided that those acts could be cited by those short titles "without prejudice to any other mode of citation".

Those acts may continue to be cited by those short titles notwithstanding the repeal of this section and Schedule 2.

[4] Section 3 – Construction of Schedules This section provided that (the citation of the acts in) the schedules were to be construed as referring to the Revised Edition of the Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, prepared by the Statute Law Committee, printed in 1908.