{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-sheriff-appeal-court-rules-2015/rule-7.8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-sheriff-appeal-court-rules-2015/rule-7.8.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/7.8",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "7.8",
  "heading": "Questions about competency: determination",
  "text": "(1) At a hearing on the competency of an appeal, the procedural Appeal Sheriff may—\n(a) refuse the appeal as incompetent;\n(b) find the appeal to be competent;\n(c) reserve the question of competency until the appeal hearing; or\n(d) refer the question of competency to the Court.\n(2) The procedural Appeal Sheriff may make an order as to the expenses of the reference.\n(3) Where the question of competency is referred to the Court, it may—\n(a) refuse the appeal as incompetent;\n(b) find the appeal to be competent;\n(c) reserve the question of competency until the appeal hearing.\n(4) The Court may make an order as to the expenses of the reference.",
  "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 7.8 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/7.8",
    "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."
}