The Automated Registration of Title to Land (Electronic Communications) (Scotland) Order 2006
This Order amends the Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 7) (“the 1995 Act”) to permit electronic documents created within the Automated Registration of Title to Land (“ARTL”) system, and authenticated by means of digital signature, to be valid for the creation, transfer, variation or extinction of interests in land or for the constitution of contracts or obligations in relation to such creation, transfer, variation or extinction or the constitution of gratuitous unilateral obligations. It also amends the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 1979 (c. 33) (“the 1979 Act”) to introduce conditions upon which electronic applications for registration may be made and to permit that certificates of title may be issued as electronic communications.