Paragraph 1 Citation, application and interpretation

(1)

These Rules may be cited as the Small Claim Rules 1988.

(2)

These Rules shall apply to a small claim, being such summary cause proceedings as may be prescribed by the Lord Advocate under section 35(2) of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971.

(3)

In these Rules—

(a)

a form referred to by number means the form so numbered in Appendix 1 to these rules or a form substantially of the same effect with such variation as circumstances may require;

(b)

a reference to the Ordinary Cause Rules means the rules in Schedule 1 to the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907^f1; and

(c)

a reference to the Summary Cause Rules means the rules in the Schedule to the Act of Sederunt (Summary Cause Rules, Sheriff Court) 1976.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1907 c. 51; Schedule 1 was substituted by S.I. 1983/747