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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-copyright-designs-and-patents-1990/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-copyright-designs-and-patents-1990/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/380",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Copyright, Designs and Patents) 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-copyright-designs-and-patents-1990",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Leave of the court for certain actions to proceed",
  "text": "(1) Where, in an action for infringement of copyright or for infringement of design right, leave of the sheriff is required before the action may proceed the pursuer shall lodge along with the initial writ or summons a written motion or incidental application, as the case may be, seeking such leave and stating the grounds upon which it is sought.\n(2) The sheriff may hear the pursuer on the motion or incidental application and may grant or refuse it or may make such other order in relation to it as he considers appropriate prior to such determination.\n(3) Where such a motion or application is granted, a copy of the sheriff’s interlocutor shall be served upon the defender along with the warrant of citation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/380/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:26:34.854471+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."
}