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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-simple-procedure-2016/schedule-1/part-4",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2016/200",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Simple Procedure) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-simple-procedure-2016",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/4",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "4: How to respond to a claim",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "4.1\nWhat is this Part about?\n(1)\nThis Part is about how the respondent responds to a claim and what the court will do with that response.\n4.2\nHow do you respond to a claim?\n(1)\nThe respondent must respond to the claim by the last date for a response.\n(2)\nThe respondent may respond to a claim in one of two ways:\n(a)\nby completing a Response Form and sending it to the court and the claimant, or\n(b)\nif the respondent wants to admit the claim and ask for time to pay, by completing a Time to Pay Application and sending it to the court.\n4.3\nWhat responses can you make?\n(1)\nThere are three ways in which the respondent may respond to the claim.\n(2)\nThe respondent may:\n(a)\nadmit the claim and settle it before the last date for a response,\n(b)\nadmit the claim and ask the court for time to pay (see Part 5), or\n(c)\ndispute the claim or part of the claim (such as the amount the respondent should pay the claimant).\n(3)\nThis flow-chart sets out how the respondent may respond to a claim:\n4.4\nWhat has to go in the Response Form?\n(1)\nThe respondent must set out in the Response Form the following information:\n(a)\nwhich facts (if any) set out in the Claim Form that the respondent agrees with,\n(b)\nwhich facts (if any) set out in the Claim Form that the respondent disagrees with and why,\n(c)\nwhy the respondent thinks that the claimant should not get what was asked for in the Claim Form, or why the claimant should only get some of what was asked for in the Claim Form,\n(d)\nwhat steps the respondent has already taken (if any) to try to resolve the dispute with the claimant.\n(2)\nThe respondent must indicate in the Response Form if the respondent thinks that there should be any additional respondents.\n(3)\n. . .\n(4)\n. . .\n4.5\nWhat will the court do with the Response Form?\n(1)\nWhen the court receives a Response Form, the sheriff clerk must register it.\n(2)\nThe sheriff clerk must then present the Claim Form, the Confirmation of Formal Service and the Response Form to the sheriff (see Part 7).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 rule 4.2 substituted (30.7.2018) by Act of Sederunt (Simple Procedure Amendment) (Miscellaneous) 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/191), paras. 1(2), 2(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 rule 4.3(3): in the flow-chart, words “Select option C2 on the Response Form.” omitted (30.7.2018) by virtue of Act of Sederunt (Simple Procedure Amendment) (Miscellaneous) 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/191), paras. 1(2), 2(2)(d)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 1 rule 4.3(3): in the flow-chart, word “also” omitted (30.7.2018) by virtue of Act of Sederunt (Simple Procedure Amendment) (Miscellaneous) 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/191), paras. 1(2), 2(2)(d)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 1 rule 4.3(3): in the flow-chart, words “with the completed Response Form” omitted (30.7.2018) by virtue of Act of Sederunt (Simple Procedure Amendment) (Miscellaneous) 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/191), paras. 1(2), 2(2)(d)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 1 rule 4.3(3): in the flow-chart, word \"C2\" substituted for \"C3\" (30.7.2018) by Act of Sederunt (Simple Procedure Amendment) (Miscellaneous) 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/191), paras. 1(2), 2(2)(d)(iv)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Sch. 1 rule 4.4(3) omitted (31.5.2023) by virtue of Act of Sederunt (Simple Procedure Amendment) (Miscellaneous) 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/211), paras. 1(2), 2(2)(g) (with para. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Sch. 1 rule 4.4(4) omitted (31.5.2023) by virtue of Act of Sederunt (Simple Procedure Amendment) (Miscellaneous) 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/211), paras. 1(2), 2(2)(g) (with para. 3)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/200/schedule/1/part/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:23:36.581509+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."
}