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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/requirements-of-writing-scotland-act-1995/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/7",
  "legislation_title": "Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/requirements-of-writing-scotland-act-1995",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Except where an enactment expressly provides otherwise, where a granter of a traditional document is a partnership, the document is signed by the partnership if it is signed on its behalf by a partner or by a person authorised to sign the document on its behalf.\n(2) A person signing on behalf of a partnership under this paragraph may use his own name or the firm name.\n(3) Sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) of this paragraph apply in relation to the signing of an alteration made to a document as they apply in relation to the signing of a document.\n(4) In this paragraph “partnership” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the Partnership Act 1890.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 2(1) substituted (8.12.2014 for specified purposes) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, Sch. 3 para. 25(b) (with s. 121, Sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/41, art. 2(1)(c)(2), Sch. Pt. 3 (with arts. 3, 4) (see S.S.I. 2014/127, art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1890 c. 39."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "asp/2024/2",
      "affecting_title": "Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Act 2024"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/7/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:20.773931+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."
}