{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-proceedings-for-determination-of-compatibility-questions-rules-2024/rule-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-proceedings-for-determination-of-compatibility-questions-rules-2024/rule-7.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/7",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Response to intimation of compatibility question",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where the relevant authority receives intimation of a compatibility question.\n(2) Where the relevant authority intends to take part as a party in the proceedings, it must lodge a minute stating that it intends to do so.\n(3) Upon receipt of the minute lodged in accordance with paragraph (2), the sheriff is to sist the relevant authority as a party to the action.\n(4) Upon the relevant authority being sisted as a party in accordance with paragraph (3), the sheriff is to order the relevant authority to lodge a note of its written submissions in respect of the compatibility question specifying those matters mentioned in rule 5(1) within 7 days, or such other period as the sheriff thinks fit.\n(5) A copy of the minute lodged in accordance with paragraph (2) and a copy of any note lodged in accordance with paragraph (4) must, at the same time as lodging the minute or any note, be intimated by the party lodging such to all other parties in the proceedings.\n(6) At any time after the note mentioned in paragraph (4) has been lodged, the sheriff may regulate such further procedure in the proceedings as the sheriff thinks fit.\n(7) Where a relevant authority does not take part as a party in the proceedings at first instance, the court may allow it to take part as a party in any subsequent appeal to the Sheriff Appeal Court.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2024/197/rule/7",
    "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."
}