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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-small-claim-rules-1988/schedule/appendix-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1976",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Small Claim Rules) 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-small-claim-rules-1988",
  "path": "schedule/appendix/3",
  "kind": "appendix",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "RULES OF THE SUMMARY CAUSE RULES WHICH APPLY TO SMALL CLAIMS",
  "text": "rule 3A (information on summonds).\nrule 6(1), (2) and (4) (citation and service within Scotland by officer of court).\nrule 9 (citation of or service on persons outwith Scotland).\nrule 11 (endorsation of summons by sheriff clerk of defender’s residence not necessary).\nrule 12 (re-service).\nrule 13 (defender appearing barred from objecting to citation).\nrule 18(8) (sheriff to be satisfied that defender outwith Scotland also to receive summons).\nrule 18A (decree in causes to which the Hague Convention applies).\nrule 22 (transfer to another court).\nrule 24A(1) and (2) (borrowing of production).\nrule 26 (documents lost or destroyed).\nrule 29 (citation of witnesses).\nrule 30 (form of citation and execution thereof).\nrule 31 (failure to answer citation).\nrule 32 (witnesses failing to attend).\nrule 39 (confidentiality).\nrule 47 (arrestment).\nrule 48 (recall and restriction of arrestment).\nrule 71 (diligence of decree in action of delivery).\nrule 82 (effect of and abandonment of appeal).\nrule 83(1), (3) (4) (hearing of appeal).\nrule 85 (sheriff to regulate interim possession).\nrules 85A (appeal in relation to time to pay direction).\nrule 89 (extract of decree).\nrule 92 (application in same cause for variation, etc, of decree).\nform N (citation of witness).\nform O (execution of citation of witness).\nforms U1, U2, U2A, U9, U10, U11, U13 and U14 (extract decrees).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rule 3A was inserted S.I. by 1980/455"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Rule 9 amended by S.I. 1980/455"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Rule 11 was amended by S.I. 1980/455"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Rule 12 was amended by S.I. 1978/1805"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Rule 24A was inserted by S.I. 1980/455"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Rule 32 was amended by S.I. 1980/455"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Rule 39 was amended by S.I. 1980/455"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "Rule 83 was substituted by S.I. 1980/455"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "Rule 85A was inserted by S.I. 1988/1978"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "Rule 89 was amended by S.I. 1980/455"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "Rule 92 was amended by S.I. 1988/1978"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "Form N was amended by S.I. 1980/455"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f13",
      "text": "Forms U1, U9, U10, U11, U13 and U14 were amended by S.I. 1978/112, and forms U2 and U2A were substituted by S.I. 1988/1978"
    }
  ],
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  "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."
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