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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-requirements-of-writing-1996/section-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1534",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Requirements of Writing) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-requirements-of-writing-1996",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Decree, interlocutor and certificate",
  "text": "Where the sheriff grants an application under paragraph 4 or 5 he shall—\n(a) where the document has been registered in the Books of Council and Session or the sheriff court books, grant decree in those terms; or\n(b) in any other case—\n(i) issue an interlocutor; and\n(ii) direct the sheriff clerk to endorse a certificate on the document as nearly as may be in accordance with Form 3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1534/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:41:54.749030+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."
}