{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-fatal-accident-inquiry-rules-2017/schedule-5/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-fatal-accident-inquiry-rules-2017/schedule-5/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2017/103",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Fatal Accident Inquiry Rules) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-fatal-accident-inquiry-rules-2017",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Testimony by commissioner: interrogatories",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where the sheriff—\n(a) authorises testimony by commissioner;\n(b) orders that interrogatories are to be prepared.\n(2) When the sheriff makes an order for interrogatories to be prepared, the sheriff is to specify the periods within which participants must comply with the steps in this paragraph.\n(3) The participant who cited the witness must lodge draft interrogatories in process.\n(4) Any other participant may lodge cross-interrogatories.\n(5) The participants may adjust their interrogatories and cross-interrogatories.\n(6) At the expiry of the adjustment period, the participants must lodge the interrogatories and cross-interrogatories as adjusted with the sheriff.\n(7) The sheriff is to resolve any dispute as to the content of the interrogatories and cross-interrogatories, and approve them.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 9 in force at 15.6.2017, see rule 1.1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/103/schedule/5/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:19:19.120442+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."
}