{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988/section-102",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988/section-102.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/110",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Adjournal (Consolidation) 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988",
  "path": "section/102",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "102",
  "heading": "Powers of sheriff",
  "text": "(1) The sheriff shall on the application being placed before him—\n(a) order intimation on the other party or parties to the proceedings;\n(b) subject to paragraph (2), allow such time for lodging answers as appears appropriate;\n(c) fix a diet for hearing the application and answers (if any).\n(2) The sheriff may dispense with answers to an application under this rule on cause shown.\n(3) The sheriff may, after considering the application and answers (if any), either grant the application with or without modifications, or refuse it.\n(4) On granting an application under this rule, the sheriff shall—\n(a) allow interrogatories to be adjusted summarily;\n(b) pronounce a deliverance approving the terms—\n(i) of the letter of request to be sent;\n(ii) of the interrogatories and cross-interrogatories (if any) to be sent;\n(c) If English is not an official language of the body to whom the letter of request is addressed, specify a period within which a translation of the letter and of the interrogatories and cross-interrogatories and of any productions is to be lodged.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/110/section/102",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:12:46.518890+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}