{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-proceedings-for-determination-of-compatibility-questions-rules-2024/rule-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-proceedings-for-determination-of-compatibility-questions-rules-2024/rule-6.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2024/197",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Proceedings for Determination of Compatibility Questions Rules) 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-proceedings-for-determination-of-compatibility-questions-rules-2024",
  "path": "rule/6",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Intimation of compatibility question",
  "text": "(1) Intimation of a compatibility question must be given to the relevant authority (unless it is a party to the proceedings) in accordance with this rule.\n(2) Where the compatibility question is raised in the initiating document, the sheriff is to order intimation of the compatibility question as craved in the warrant for service.\n(3) In any case other than that described in paragraph (2), the party raising the compatibility question must lodge a motion or incidental application, as the case may be, craving a warrant for intimation of the compatibility question on the relevant authority, and on considering the motion or incidental application, where it appears to the sheriff that a compatibility question arises, the sheriff is to order such intimation of the compatibility question.\n(4) Where intimation is ordered in accordance with paragraphs (2) or (3), such intimation must be in Form 2 and be made in such manner as the sheriff considers appropriate in the circumstances.\n(5) The intimation of a compatibility question must specify 14 days, or such other period as the sheriff thinks fit, as the period within which the relevant authority may take part as a party in the proceedings.\n(6) Where, after determination at first instance of any proceedings in which a compatibility question has been raised under this Act of Sederunt, a party to those proceedings appeals to the Sheriff Appeal Court in accordance with Chapter 6 of the Act of Sederunt (Sheriff Appeal Court Rules) 2021, that party must, unless the relevant authority is already a party to the proceedings, intimate the note of appeal to the relevant authority, together with a notice in Form 2A.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2021/468, last amended by S.S.I. 2024/195."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2024/197/rule/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:39:52.792832+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."
}