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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-documents-scotland-regulations-2014/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-documents-scotland-regulations-2014/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2014/83",
  "legislation_title": "The Electronic Documents (Scotland) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-documents-scotland-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Requirements of formally valid electronic document",
  "text": "For an electronic document required by section 1(2) of the 1995 Act to be valid the electronic signature of a granter incorporated into or logically associated with that document must be an advanced electronic signature.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 11.5.2014, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 1(2) is amended by the 2012 Act, section 96(2)(a) for limited purposes by, and subject to transitional provision for ARTL documents in article 3(2) of, S.S.I. 2014/41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/83/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:35:42.819383+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}