5 Alterations to documents[traditional documents]: formal validity and presumptions
Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995 (1995 c 7) | Legislation

5  Alterations to documents[traditional documents]: formal validity and presumptions

(1)     An alteration made to a document [traditional document] required by section 1(2) of this Act—

(a)     before the document is subscribed by the granter or, if there is more than one granter, by the granter first subscribing it, shall form part of the document as so subscribed;

(b)     after the document is so subscribed shall, if the alteration has been signed by the granter or (as the case may be) by all the granters, have effect as a formally valid alteration of the document as so subscribed,

but an alteration made to such a document otherwise than as mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) above shall not be formally valid.

(2)     Subsection (1) above is without prejudice to—

(a)

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