{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-sheriff-appeal-court-rules-2021/rule-16.6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-sheriff-appeal-court-rules-2021/rule-16.6.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2021/468",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Sheriff Appeal Court Rules) 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-sheriff-appeal-court-rules-2021",
  "path": "rule/16.6",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "16.6",
  "heading": "Applications to enter process as respondent",
  "text": "(1) A person to whom the appeal has not been intimated may apply by minute for leave to enter the process as a party minuter and lodge answers.\n(2) A minute under paragraph (1) must specify—\n(a) the applicant’s title and interest to enter the process;\n(b) the basis for the answers that the applicant proposes to lodge.\n(3) At the hearing fixed under rule 16.3(1)(c), the procedural Appeal Sheriff must determine whether the applicant has shown title and interest to enter the process.\n(4) If the procedural Appeal Sheriff is satisfied, the procedural Appeal Sheriff may grant the applicant leave to enter the process and lodge answers.\n(5) Where leave is granted, the procedural Appeal Sheriff is to make such further order as the procedural Appeal Sheriff thinks fit.\n(6) In particular, such an order may include an order—\n(a) varying any timetable;\n(b) as to the expenses of the application.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Para. 16.6 in force at 6.1.2022, see para. 1.1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2021/468/rule/16.6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:52:26.871573+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."
}