Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947

347 Authentication of notices by local authority.

(1) Any notice, order, demand, requisition or other such document by a local authority required or authorised by this Act or any other enactment or any statutory order or byelaw shall, except in so far as any such other enactment Or statutory order specifically otherwise provides, be signed by the clerk of the authority or authenticated in such other manner as the authority may by standing order or otherwise direct, and subject to the provisions of any such other enactment or statutory order, any such notice or other document may be withdrawn by a notice similarly authenticated.

(2) Any document purporting to bear the signature of the clerk of a local authority or of an officer expressed to be duly authorised by the authority to sign such a document or the particular document shall, for the purposes of any enactment or statutory order relating to any function of the authority, or any regulations, order or byelaws thereunder, be deemed, until the contrary is proved, to have been duly given, made or issued by authority of the local authority.

In this subsection the expression " signature " includes a facsimile of a signature by whatever process reproduced.