Explanatory Notes

Scottish Register of Tartans Act 2008

2008 asp 7

13 November 2008

Summary of and Background to the Act

Section 8:  Refused Applications: Reconsideration

24.The Keeper will decide whether to accept or reject an application. This section provides that where an application for registration is not accepted on certain grounds, the applicant can, within 2 months of being notified of a refusal, and having paid the requisite fee, ask for the application to be reconsidered. Subsection (3) requires the Keeper to reconsider such an application and subsection (4) requires the Keeper, where an application is accepted upon reconsideration, to reimburse the fee for that reconsideration.