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Part 3SPublic service reform

Land registrationS

34Register of Inhibitions: electronic signature of documentsS

(1)The Bankruptcy and Diligence etc. (Scotland) Act 2007 is modified as follows.

(2)After section 148 insert—

148ARegister of Inhibitions: electronic signature of documents

(1)This section applies in relation to a document which is required or permitted to be registered or recorded in the Register of Inhibitions.

(2)An electronic signature fulfils any requirement (however expressed) that the document be signed in order to be registered or recorded in the Register.

(3)Any requirement (however expressed) that the document be given to the Keeper in order to be registered or recorded in the Register may be fulfilled by transmitting it to the Keeper electronically.

(4)For the purposes of subsection (3), the document must be transmitted by a means (and in a form) which is specified on the Keeper’s website as being acceptable for those purposes.

(5)In this section—

Commencement Information

I1S. 34 in force at 1.10.2022, see s. 59(1)