How To Register With A Scottish Clan

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Tartan name

Your proposed tartan name should describe the nature and purpose of your tartan every bit clearly and succinctly as possible, using the English language, taking into account the guidelines beneath. Notation: American English language spellings will be corrected to British English where appropriate. If you lot wish to submit your application in another language and then delight contact us for communication.

The proposed proper noun must be unique on the Register. Your name may be amended if information technology is found to be too similar to the proper noun of an existing registered tartan. It must differ from the names of all tartans already included on the Register. Spelling variants of family unit names, e.yard. McLeod and MacLoud or MacName and McName, will be regarded as the same name for the purposes of registration.
The proposed name must be no more than than 200 characters in length.
Y'all must be able to demonstrate a personal association with the proposed name. You must therefore explain fully why y'all accept called the proposed proper noun and explain your association with it.
The Keeper may refuse an application if your association is not determined to exist sufficient or substantial. A general involvement in a subject affair may not be considered to exist a sufficient or substantial association.
Tartan names cannot be used equally a ways of promoting political statements or to represent political campaigns or ideology.
If you are applying to register a tartan on behalf of a 3rd party, whether an private, clan, corporation, place, regiment or other body, you must provide evidence of your authority to apply their proper noun for the tartan.
Where the proper noun of a tartan is a surname and that surname has a principal, head of the whole name or commander for that clan or family, so written approval from the chief, head or commander is required. These tartans will exist put in the Clan / Family unit tartan category.
Tartan names cannot exist accounted to be a blueprint that represents multiple groups unless there is an official person who represents all the groups and authority is received from that person or convening arrangement.
Tartan names in the Proper name category must include a surname and a forename or initial followed by (Personal) with the applicant(south) having a clear association with the proposed surname(s) and forename(s). The year of registration or geographical location may be added to the tartan proper noun in lodge to make the name unique. Thus, any tartans in the Name category volition be in the post-obit format:
1. 'Surname, Forename (Personal)'; or
2. 'Surname, Initial (Personal)'; or
3. 'Surname, Forename & Family (Personal)'; or
4. 'Surname, Initial & Family (Personal)'; or
5. 'Surname, Forename (Year) (Personal)'; or
6. 'Surname, Forename, location (Personal)'; or
7. 'Surname, Forename - Hymeneals (Personal)'; or
8. 'Surname, Forename & Surname, Forename - Hymeneals (Personal)'.
Note that it is not acceptable to include the word 'Tartan' in the tartan name.
The improver of tartan descriptors, Hunting and Wearing apparel, to a tartan proper name will but be accepted for the purposes of registration where an original tartan of the same proper noun is registered e.g Ferguson, A, Hunting (Personal) can merely be registered if Ferguson, A (Personal) has already been registered. You may be required to offer proof of your association with an original existing tartan and advisable authority to register a farther version of it. The use of 'Modern' or 'Ancient' will not be accustomed equally these are tartan terms for different shades (softer or brighter) of the same colours and would therefore not be considered to unique or sufficiently different. The use of colours is also not acceptable.
Tartan names cannot include religious titles or names of Saints unless the name of the Saint is included because it is within the official name of a building, place or official organisation.
The proposed name must not include a country or place or give the impression that the tartan has the official backing of a clan/family unit, organization, regiment, urban center, country or other place unless evidence of official backing is submitted. You should explicate your personal association with the proper name and why you have chosen it. The Keeper may refuse an application if your association is not determined to be sufficient or substantial.
A tartan cannot be the proper name of anything that is already covered past an official registered trademark or is an idea or intellectual property owned by an individual or group without their express permission in the class of written authorization.
Where a tartan is named later on a specific outcome and if there is a body that is responsible for organising that outcome and then authority from that body to include the event in the tartan proper name is required.

The preposition 'of' has a specific significant in Scots law indicating ownership of all the lands then described. Please exercise not use 'of' in the tartan name unless you can demonstrate ownership of the lands so described.

Only titles recognised past the Court of the Lord Lyon in Scotland may be used in naming tartans.

Please use the links below to access data relative to specific types of names.

Scottish association and family names
Name and Personal Name tartans
Corporate tartans for organisations and groups
District and place names
Military machine and regimental names
Purple tartans

Scottish clan and family unit names
The applicant must be the head or chief of the family or clan, or take the written authority of the head or chief. Where there is no chief or caput, the potency of the Association or Family unit Society will exist adequate to register a Association Club tartan. All applications to register Scottish clan or family unit tartans volition be submitted to the Courtroom of the Lord Lyon for advice and annotate.

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Name and Personal Proper name tartans
A tartan named for an private, whether alive or dead or for family names that are non within the Association / Family category. This category is used for a personal proper name. Note that applicants can no longer register tartan names that comprise only a surname or surname and year because they cannot be accounted to represent the Clan /Family unit without the written authority. See the Association / Family category above. In that location must exist a clear association betwixt the applicant and the name of the tartan. If registering a tartan on behalf of a third party, the applicant must provide written evidence of 3rd party approval for the publication of his or her proper name in the Register. Contact details should be provided for the person who will exist controlling the futurity employ of the tartan. Note that it is non acceptable to include the word 'Tartan' in the tartan name. The name has to be unique so the addition of a year or location might be required to identify a specific tartan. Examples of acceptable name formats are listed below:

Ferguson, Alasdair (Personal)
Ferguson, A (Personal)
Ferguson, Alasdair, & Family (Personal)
Ferguson, A, & Family (Personal)
Ferguson, Alasdair (2018) (Personal)
Ferguson, Alasdair, Inverness (Personal)
Ferguson, Alasdair - Wedding (Personal)
Ferguson, Alasdair & Brown, Mary - Wedding (Personal)

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Corporate tartans for organisations and groups
Where a tartan is named for a company or organisation, giving the impression of an association with it and using either its official championship or a ordinarily used nickname, so the application must exist accompanied past a alphabetic character of authorisation from a prominent office-bearer in the appropriate body, eg. the Chief Executive.

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District and identify names
Where a tartan is named afterwards a country, a country, a district, a town or a city, giving the impression of an association with any key or local authority, public or individual initiative, an application must exist accompanied by a letter of authority from a prominent office-bearer in the appropriate trunk.

Where there is no single local authority to authorise a district or identify name tartan, then the applicant will be expected to seek approval from a higher authorization or from all local authorities which may accept an interest or influence in the district concerned.

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Military and regimental names
The applicant will be expected to submit evidence that the tartan has been endorsed past the Commanding Officeholder (or equivalent) of the regiment concerned.

At that place must be a articulate, obvious clan between the tartan proper name and the regiment/organisation.

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Royal tartans
The bidder must submit written authority from a senior official from within the relevant regal household.

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