{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-authorities-fraud-error-and-recovery-act-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-authorities-fraud-error-and-recovery-act-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/28",
  "legislation_title": "Public Authorities (Fraud, Error and Recovery) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-authorities-fraud-error-and-recovery-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Seal and evidence",
  "text": "(1) The application of the PSFA’s seal must be authenticated by a signature of—\n(a) a member of the PSFA, or\n(b) another person authorised for that purpose by the PSFA.\n(2) A document purporting to be duly executed under the PSFA’s seal or signed on its behalf—\n(a) is to be received in evidence, and\n(b) is to be taken to be executed or signed in that way, unless the contrary is shown.\n(3) But this paragraph does not apply in relation to any document which is, or is to be, signed in accordance with the law of Scotland.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 17 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 109(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/28/schedule/2/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:27:04.329230+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."
}