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Scottish Statutory Instruments
2014 No. 83
Electronic Communications
The Electronic Documents (Scotland) Regulations 2014
Made
25th March 2014
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
27th March 2014
Coming into force
11th May 2014
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 9B(2)(c), 9C(2) and 9E(1)(d) of the Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
(1)
1995 c.7, amended by the Petroleum Act 1998 (c.17), Schedule 5, Part 1, paragraph 1, the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46), Schedule 8, paragraph 31, S.I. 1999/1820, Schedule 2, Part 1, paragraph 118, the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 5), schedule 12, Part 1, paragraph 58, S.I. 2000/2040, Schedule, Part 1, paragraph 17, the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 10), schedule 10, paragraph 22, S.S.I. 2001/128, Schedule 4, paragraphs 4 and 5, the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9), schedule 15, paragraph 1, S.S.I. 2006/491, article 3, the Companies Act 2006 (c.46), Schedule 16, paragraph 1, the Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 3), sections 48(1) and 222(2) and (3), S.I. 2008/948, Schedule 1, Part 2, paragraph 199, S.I. 2009/1941, Schedule 1, paragraph 151 and the Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5) (“the 2012 Act”), sections 96, 97 and 98 and schedule 3. Sections 9B(2)(c), 9C(2) and 9E(1)(d) are inserted by section 97 of the 2012 Act for limited purposes by, and subject to transitional provision for Automated Registration of Title to Land (“ARTL”) documents in article 3(2) of, S.S.I. 2014/41.
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