{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-sheriff-appeal-court-rules-2021/rule-29.6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-sheriff-appeal-court-rules-2021/rule-29.6.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/29.6",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "29.6",
  "heading": "Sist of application for new trial and variation of timetable",
  "text": "(1) Any party may apply by motion to—\n(a) sist the application for a new trial for a specified period;\n(b) recall a sist;\n(c) vary the timetable.\n(2) An application is to be determined by the procedural Appeal Sheriff.\n(3) An application to sist the application for a new trial or to vary the timetable may only be granted on special cause shown.\n(4) The procedural Appeal Sheriff may—\n(a) grant the application;\n(b) refuse the application; or\n(c) make an order not sought in the application, where the procedural Appeal Sheriff considers that doing so would secure the expeditious disposal of the appeal.\n(5) Where the procedural Appeal Sheriff makes an order sisting the application for a new trial, the Clerk must discharge the procedural hearing fixed under rule 29.5(2).\n(6) When a sist is recalled or expires, the Clerk must—\n(a) issue a revised timetable in Form 29.5;\n(b) fix a procedural hearing.\n(7) Where the procedural Appeal Sheriff makes an order varying the timetable, the Clerk must—\n(a) discharge the procedural hearing fixed under rule 29.5(2);\n(b) issue a revised timetable in Form 29.5;\n(c) fix a procedural hearing.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Para. 29.6 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/29.6",
    "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."
}