{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-proceeds-of-crime-rules-1996/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-proceeds-of-crime-rules-1996/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2446",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Proceeds of Crime Rules) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-proceeds-of-crime-rules-1996",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Appeals to the Court of Session",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies to appeals against an interlocutor of the sheriff refusing, varying or recalling or refusing to vary or recall a restraint order.\n(2) An appeal to which this rule applies shall be marked within 14 days after the date of the interlocutor concerned.\n(3) An appeal to which this rule applies shall be marked by writing a note of appeal on the interlocutor sheet, or other written record containing the interlocutor appealed against, or on a separate sheet lodged with the sheriff clerk, in the following terms:– “The applicant appeals to the Court of Session.”.\n(4) A note of appeal to which this rule applies shall –\n(a) be signed by the appellant;\n(b) bear the date on which it is signed; and\n(c) where the appellant is represented, specify the name and address of the solicitor or other agent who will be acting for him in the appeal.\n(5) The sheriff clerk shall transmit the process within 4 days after the appeal is marked to the Deputy Principal Clerk of Session.\n(6) Within the period specified in paragraph (5) above, the sheriff clerk shall–\n(a) send written notice of the appeal to every other party; and\n(b) certify on the interlocutor sheet that he has done so.\n(7) Failure of the sheriff clerk to comply with paragraph (6) above shall not invalidate the appeal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2446/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:35:04.605518+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."
}