{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-stock-regulations-2004/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-stock-regulations-2004/regulation-27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1611",
  "legislation_title": "The Government Stock Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/government-stock-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Execution of instruments in Scotland on behalf of persons blind or unable to write",
  "text": "(1) Where any party to a transfer of any stock is blind or unable to write and the transfer is to be executed in Scotland, the requirements of regulation 15 above shall, so far as any such party is concerned, be deemed to be complied with if the transfer is subscribed on his behalf in accordance with section 9 of the Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995.\n(2) The Registrar may give effect to a dividend mandate contained in an instrument relating to any stock, or directions contained in such an instrument as to the payment or reinvestment of money attributable to any stock which becomes payable by reason of the redemption (whether wholly or in part) of that stock, if the instrument is subscribed in accordance with the said section 9 on behalf of a person who is blind or unable to write.\n(3) The Registrar may decline to give effect to an instrument purporting to be subscribed in accordance with this regulation unless there is furnished to them a statutory declaration, or such other evidence as the Registrar may require, that the transfer was to be executed, and has been subscribed, in Scotland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 27 in force at 1.7.2004, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1611/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:23:50.581776+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."
}