# The Wafer Scottish Seal Directions 1999, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Directions)
These Directions provide for impressions with the same device as the Scottish Seal (that is, Her Majesty’s Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept and used in Scotland in place of the Great Seal of Scotland) to be taken. Each such impression is to be known as a “Wafer Scottish Seal”. The Directions specify the manner in which Wafer Scottish Seals are to be taken, the material on which they may be taken and their size. They also direct how the Wafer Scottish Seals are to be kept.
Section 38(6) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) (“the 1998 Act”) provides that if a Wafer Scottish Seal has been applied to Letters Patent signed with Her Majesty’s own hand signifying Her Assent to a Bill passed by the Scottish Parliament or a royal proclamation under section 2(5) or 3(2) of the 1998 Act (proclamations dissolving the Parliament and making provision as to holding of general elections) then the document has the same validity as if it had passed under the Scottish Seal.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/1999/130/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/wafer-scottish-seal-directions-1999/note
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