
1 
These Directions may be cited as the Wafer Scottish Seal Directions 1999 and shall come into force on 22nd November 1999.
2 
In these Directions –
 “document” means–
(a) Letters Patent signed with Her Majesty’s own hand signifying Her Assent to a Bill passed by the Scottish Parliament; and
(b) a royal proclamation under section 2(5) or 3(2) of the Scotland Act 1998;
 “the Scottish Seal” means Her Majesty’s Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be kept and used in Scotland in place of the Great Seal of Scotland; and
 “Wafer Scottish Seal” shall be construed in accordance with paragraph 3(2) of these Directions.
3 

(1) Impressions with the same device as the Scottish Seal shall be taken in accordance with these Directions.
(2) Each such impression is referred to as “a Wafer Scottish Seal”.
4 

(1) A Wafer Scottish Seal shall be taken by embossment using for this purpose a die bearing such a device that, when applied by embossment to paper, parchment, wafer or wax, it leaves an impression with the same device as the Scottish Seal.
(2) Any die provided for this purpose shall be kept in the same custody as the Scottish Seal.
5 
A Wafer Scottish Seal shall be taken on paper, parchment, wafer or wax.
6 
The diameter of a Wafer Scottish Seal shall be not more than 75 millimetres and not less than 65 millimetres.
7 
A Wafer Scottish Seal shall be kept, until it is applied to a document, in the same custody as the Scottish Seal.
DONALD C DEWAR
First Minister, Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
19th October 1999