{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-sheriff-court-summary-application-rules-1993/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-sheriff-court-summary-application-rules-1993/schedule-1/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3240",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Sheriff Court Summary Application Rules) 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-sheriff-court-summary-application-rules-1993",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“decree” includes any judgment, deliverance, interlocutor, act, order, finding or authority which may be extracted;\n“defender” means any person other than the pursuer who is a party to a summary application;\n“pursuer” means any person making a summary application;\n“sheriff clerk” includes a sheriff clerk depute;\n“summary application” has the meaning given by section 3 of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907.\n(2) Where there is a reference to a form in these Rules, that form in the Appendix to these Rules or a form substantially to the same effect shall be used with such variation as circumstances may require.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3240/schedule/1/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:43:40.895503+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."
}