C5C4Part 4A company's capacity and related matters
Pts. 1-39 (except for Pt. 7 and ss. 662-669), 45-47 extended (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 2
Formalities of doing business under the law of Scotland
C1C2C348Execution of documents by companies
1
The following provisions form part of the law of Scotland only.
2
Notwithstanding the provisions of any enactment, a company need not have a company seal.
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For the purposes of any enactment—
a
providing for a document to be executed by a company by affixing its common seal, or
b
referring (in whatever terms) to a document so executed,
a document signed or subscribedF1(or, in the case of an electronic document, authenticated) by or on behalf of the company in accordance with the provisions of the Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 7) has effect as if so executed.
Pts. 1-39 modified (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EC) No. 2157/2001, Art. AAA1(3) (as inserted by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 97 (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1))