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Paragraph 1

Scotland

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Any reference in any other enactment to a probative document shall, in relation to a document executed after the commencement of this Act, be construed as a reference to a document in relation to which section 6(2)F1or F29G(2) of this Act applies.

(2)

For the purposes of any enactment—

(a)

providing for a document to be executed by a body corporate by affixing its common seal; or

(b)

referring (in whatever terms) to a document so executed,

a document signed F3, subscribed or authenticated by or on behalf of the body corporate in accordance with the provisions of the Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995 shall have effect as if so executed.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Sch. 4 para. 1(1) inserted (11.5.2014 for specified purposes) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, Sch. 3 para. 27(a) (with s. 121, Sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/41, art. 2(1)(b)(2), Sch. Pt. 2 (with arts. 3, 4)

F2

Word in Sch. 4 para. 1(1) substituted (8.12.2014) by The Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (Amendment and Transitional) Order 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/346), arts. 1(2), 2(1)

F3

Words in Sch. 4 para. 1(2) substituted (11.5.2014 for specified purposes) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 122, 123, Sch. 3 para. 27(b) (with s. 121, Sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/41, art. 2(1)(b)(2), Sch. Pt. 2 (with arts. 3, 4)