Section 55: Execution of documents: Scotland

Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 · 2014 c. 14View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 4: A society's capacity and related matters

Under the law of Scotland, for the purposes of any enactment—

providing for a document to be executed by a registered society by affixing its common seal, or
referring (in whatever terms) to a document so executed,

a document signed or subscribed (or, in the case of an electronic document, authenticated) by or on behalf of the society in accordance with the provisions of the Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995 has effect as if so executed.

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