[F19EFurther provision by Scottish Ministers about electronic documentsS
(1)The Scottish Ministers may, in regulations, make provision as to the effectiveness or formal validity of, or presumptions to be made with regard to—
(a)any alteration made, whether before or after authentication, to an electronic document,
(b)the authentication, by or on behalf of the granter, of such a document,
(c)the authentication, by or on behalf of a person with a disability, of such a document, or
(d)any annexation to such a document,
(including, without prejudice to the generality of this subsection, presumptions to be made with regard to the time, date and place of authentication of such a document).
(2)Regulations under subsection (1) may make such incidental, supplemental, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision as the Scottish Ministers consider necessary or expedient for the purposes of, or in consequence of the regulations.
(3)Subject to subsection (4), regulations under subsection (1) are subject to the negative procedure.
(4)Regulations which––
(a)make provision of the kind mentioned in subsection (1)(b), or
(b)add to, replace or omit any part of an Act (including this Act),
are subject to the affirmative procedure.]
Textual Amendments
F1Pt. 3 inserted (22.3.2014 for specified purposes, 11.5.2014 for specified purposes, 1.4.2022 for specified purposes) by Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5), ss. 97(2), 122, 123 (with s. 121, sch. 4 paras. 13, 16); S.S.I. 2014/41, art. 2(1)(a)(b)(2), sch. Pts. 1, 2 (with arts. 3, 4); S.S.I. 2021/472, art. 2