{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-sheriff-appeal-court-rules-2015/rule-6.4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-sheriff-appeal-court-rules-2015/rule-6.4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2015/356",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Sheriff Appeal Court Rules) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-sheriff-appeal-court-rules-2015",
  "path": "rule/6.4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "6.4",
  "heading": "Applications to appeal out of time",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies where the enactment under which the appeal is made—\n(a) specifies a period within which the appeal must be made; and\n(b) provides that a party may apply to the Court to allow an appeal to be made outwith that period.\n(2) An application to allow an appeal to be received out of time is to be made by motion.\n(3) That motion is to be made when the note of appeal is lodged.\n(4) Where a motion to allow an appeal to be received out of time is refused—\n(a) the Clerk is to—\n(i) notify the sheriff clerk that leave to appeal out of time has been refused;\n(ii) transmit the note of appeal to the sheriff clerk;\n(b) the sheriff clerk is to place the note of appeal in the process.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rules revoked (with saving in rule 34.3) (6.1.2022) by Act of Sederunt (Sheriff Appeal Court Rules) 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/468), rules 1.1(2), 34.1 (with rules 1.2, 34.3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 6.4 in force at 1.1.2016, see rule 1.1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/356/rule/6.4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:27:22.115070+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."
}