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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-sheriff-appeal-court-rules-2021/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-sheriff-appeal-court-rules-2021/schedule-1/paragraph-3.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": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Signature of interlocutors etc.",
  "text": "(1) Any order made by the Court under these Rules is to be contained in an interlocutor.\n(2) An interlocutor must be signed in accordance with sub-paragraphs (3) to (5).\n(3) Where the Court is constituted by more than one Appeal Sheriff when an order is made, the interlocutor must be signed by either—\n(a) the Appeal Sheriff who presided over the Court when the order was made; or\n(b) in the event of the death, disability or absence of that Appeal Sheriff, the next senior Appeal Sheriff who sat on that occasion, after such consultation with the other Appeal Sheriffs who sat as may be necessary.\n(4) Where the Court is constituted by one Appeal Sheriff, the interlocutor must be signed by that Appeal Sheriff.\n(5) Where the Clerk determines an unopposed motion in writing in accordance with rule 13.7(1), the interlocutor must be signed by the Clerk unless the procedural Appeal Sheriff directs otherwise.\n(6) The Clerk may sign any other interlocutor if directed to do so by the procedural Appeal Sheriff.\n(7) A direction under sub-paragraph (6) need not be in writing.\n(8) An interlocutor signed in accordance with sub-paragraphs (5) and (6) is to be treated for all purposes as if it had been signed by an Appeal Sheriff.\n(9) An extract of an interlocutor which is not signed in accordance with the provisions of this rule is void and has no effect.\n(10) An interlocutor may, on cause shown, be corrected or altered at any time before extract by either—\n(a) the Appeal Sheriff who signed it;\n(b) in the event of the death, disability or absence of that Appeal Sheriff, by any other Appeal Sheriff; or\n(c) where the interlocutor was signed by the Clerk, by any Appeal Sheriff.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 3 in force at 6.1.2022, see para. 1.1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2021/468/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "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."
}