{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trusts-and-succession-scotland-act-2024/section-79",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trusts-and-succession-scotland-act-2024/section-79.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2024/2",
  "legislation_title": "Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trusts-and-succession-scotland-act-2024",
  "path": "section/79",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "79",
  "heading": "Amendment of Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995",
  "text": "(1) In section 7(7) of the Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995 (subscription and signing), after “partnerships,” insert “bodies of trustees,”.\n(2) In schedule 2 of that Act (subscription and signing: special cases), after paragraph 2 insert—\n“Trusts\n2A (1) Except where an enactment or the trust deed expressly provides otherwise, where a granter of a document executed after the commencement of section 79 of the Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Act 2024 is a body of trustees, the document is signed by that body if it is signed on the body’s behalf either by a majority of the trustees or by a person (whether or not one of the trustees) authorised to sign the document on the body’s behalf.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph applies in relation to the signing of an alteration to a document as it applies in relation to the signing of a document.\n(3) In this paragraph, “trust” has the meaning assigned to that expression by section 81(1) of that Act of 2024.”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 79 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 88(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "ssi/2026/323",
      "affecting_title": "The Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Act 2024 (Commencement No. 2 and Saving and Transitory Provision) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2024/2/section/79",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:33:02.065044+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."
}