This law determines the system of Administrative Scriveners. He was one time master of the Worshipful Company of Scriveners. He registered with the Company of Scriveners on 27 February 1599. For these purposes, offices employed copy clerks, also known as copyists, scribes, and scriveners. Moreover, these notaries were layman, and canon law forbids clerics to acts as scriveners. Judicial scriveners must pass an examination administered by the Ministry of Justice. Administrative Scriveners prepare legal documents such as filings with the national and local government. Judicial scriveners must maintain a membership in the for the prefecture in which they work. Judicial or administrative scriveners are often hired to draft the purposes of a new company. In the order of precedence of the City Livery Companies, the Scriveners Company ranks forty-fourth. Scriveners were people who made their living by writing or copying written material. Scriveners later developed into public servants, accountants, lawyers and petition writers. As with lawyers in Japan, scriveners are regulated and must pass an exam.