Nicola Sturgeon has said she would consider asking the Scottish Parliament to block Brexit if given the opportunity.
The First Minister would "find it hard to believe" that Holyrood would not be required to back the UK leaving the EU.
If this was the case she would "of course" think about calling on MSPs to stop it.
However, Scottish Secretary David Mundell said he did not think the Scottish Parliament would be "in a position to block Brexit".
But he said there would be another independence referendum if that was what the people of Scotland wanted.
North of the border, some 62% of people voted to stay in the EU, while across the UK 52% backed leaving.
In the wake of the Brexit vote, Ms Sturgeon said a second independence referendum was "highly likely" and she would seek to enter into "immediate discussions" with Brussels to "protect Scotland's place in the EU".
Speaking on Sky News' Murnaghan programme, Ms Sturgeon said: "A second independence referendum in these circumstances would not just be a rerun of the 2014 one because the context has totally changed.
"The UK that we voted to remain within in 2014 does not exist anymore."
The SNP leader said the UK was in "uncharted territory" following the outcome of the EU referendum.
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