I was recently doing a bit of researching and came across this statement from a publication entitled "Clans and Tartans, by Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin 1962" ....

"Nowadays tartans are being registered by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, and when so registered (on the application of the chef du nom), they become protected in law in a similar way to arms themselves. It is an offence to sell and incorrect version of a registered tartan as “X” tartan. (It is not, of course, an offence to sell it simply as an undesignated tartan). A case in point is the bogus hunting MacKinnon tartan, which is now flooding the market in the form of tartan skirts, tartan jeans and even tartan bonnets. It is, in the writer’s opinion, an improvement on the original, but it is not hunting MacKinnon (which is a registered tartan), and it is therefore illegal to offer it in Scotland under than name."

Does anyone have any diffinitive information on this? Is this, or was this accurate in 1962?

Brian Mackay