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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-intimation-and-service-2025/section-1",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2025/301",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Intimation and Service) 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-intimation-and-service-2025",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement, etc.",
  "text": "(1) This Act of Sederunt may be cited as the Act of Sederunt (Intimation and Service) 2025.\n(2) It comes into force on 1st December 2025.\n(3) A certified copy is to be inserted in the Books of Sederunt.\n(4) Subject to sub-paragraph (5), this Act of Sederunt applies to—\n(a) any Act of Sederunt, whenever made;\n(b) the Ordinary Cause Rules 1993.\n(5) This Act of Sederunt does not apply to—\n(a) the Act of Sederunt (Simple Procedure) 2016;\n(b) the Act of Sederunt (Sheriff Appeal Court Rules) 2021.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Ordinary Cause Rules 1993 are in schedule 1 of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907 (c. 51). Schedule 1 was substituted by S.I. 1993/1956 and last amended by S.S.I. 2025/80."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2016/200."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2021/468."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/301/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:33:46.431774+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."
}