{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-services-attestation-and-authentication-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-services-attestation-and-authentication-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2006/597",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration Services (Attestation and Authentication) (Scotland) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-services-attestation-and-authentication-scotland-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Manner of attestation",
  "text": "Manuscript signature is the manner of attestation prescribed for the purposes of–\n(a) sections 15(1) and (2), 16(1)(c), 18(1)(a), 21(2)(a), 24 and 25(1)(c) of the 1965 Act; and\n(b) sections 3(3A) and 5(1) of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.1.2007, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2022/267",
      "affecting_title": "The Registration of Births, Still-births and Deaths (Prescription of Forms and Attestation) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2022/267",
      "affecting_title": "The Registration of Births, Still-births and Deaths (Prescription of Forms and Attestation) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2022/267",
      "affecting_title": "The Registration of Births, Still-births and Deaths (Prescription of Forms and Attestation) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2022/267",
      "affecting_title": "The Registration of Births, Still-births and Deaths (Prescription of Forms and Attestation) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2022"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2022/267",
      "affecting_title": "The Registration of Births, Still-births and Deaths (Prescription of Forms and Attestation) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2022"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/597/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:16:54.318044+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."
}