The Scottish Royal Arch Chapter is another story. To be a Scottish Royal Arch Mason, one has to be a Mark Master, and an Excellent Master. Both these degrees can be taken in Lodges attached to a Scottish Chapter, if the candidate has not already taken the Mark Degree in a Craft Lodge. I may mention here that the Excellent Masters degree is not to be confused with the Most Excellent Masters Degree of the York Rites. Briefly, it consists of the ceremonial of passing the veils, which is a part of the Exaltation in the York Rites, as also in the Irish Royal Arch. In Scottish usage, this is a separate degree. Scottish Royal Arch Constitution also has jurisdictions over a few other degrees beyond the Royal Arch, and may optionally have Lodges and Councils attached to a parent chapter to confer these additional degrees after the Royal Arch.
A full-fledged Scottish Royal Arch Chapter has these bodies attached to it. The Supreme Royal Arch Chapter of Scotland has jurisdiction over the working of these degrees. In India, the Supreme Grand Chapter has a local Grand Chapter – United Scottish Royal Arch Freemasonry in India and Ceylon (USRAFIC) on its rolls. Each of these attached bodies have their own officers and heads, who may not necessarily be the same as the Royal Arch Officers. This is why Scottish Mark and Royal Arch Mariner Lodges are not shown in the previous table, as in English and Indian Constitutions. Most of these degrees are equivalent to some of the York Rite Degrees, but we do not have them as a system of rites – governed by a central Grand Jurisdiction as is the case here in America. There are no bodies offering the Knight Templar Degrees.