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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-intimation-and-service-2025/section-2",
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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/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Mode of service etc. where address of person is not known",
  "text": "(1) Any requirement that a person whose address is not known be—\n(a) cited;\n(b) served with a document;\n(c) given notice,\nby way of intimation, display or publication of the citation, document or notice on any part of a court building may be fulfilled in accordance with sub-paragraph (3).\n(2) The requirement in the rules mentioned below that a document be intimated or displayed on the walls of court may be fulfilled in accordance with sub-paragraph (3)—\n(a) rule 4(2) (publication) of the Chancery Procedure Rules;\n(b) rule 19(2) (intimation, service and advertisement) of the Act of Sederunt (Sheriff Court Company Insolvency Rules) 1986;\n(c) rule 6(1) (intimation and service) of the Act of Sederunt (Judicial Factors Rules) 1992;\n(d) rule 8(3) (application for commission as a sheriff officer) of the Act of Sederunt (Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers Rules) 1991.\n(3) A requirement to which reference is made in sub-paragraph (1) or (2) may be fulfilled by making publicly available on the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service website—\n(a) the type of action in which the requirement arises;\n(b) the names and addresses of the parties.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Chancery Procedure Rules are in the schedule of Act of Sederunt (Chancery Procedure Rules) 2006 (S.S.I 2006/292), as amended by S.S.I. 2007/469."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/2297, last amended by S.S.I. 2021/324. Rule 19(2) was last amended by S.S.I. 2003/388."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/272, last amended by S.S.I. 2016/312. Rule 6(1) was last amended by S.I. 1997/206."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1397, last amended by S.S.I. 2025/74. Rule 8(3) was amended by S.S.I. 2017/240."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/301/section/2",
    "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."
}