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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-small-claim-rules-1988/schedule/paragraph-1",
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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/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, application and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Small Claim Rules 1988.\n(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.\n(3) In these Rules—\n(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;\n(b) a reference to the Ordinary Cause Rules means the rules in Schedule 1 to the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907; and\n(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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1907 c. 51; Schedule 1 was substituted by S.I. 1983/747"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1976/schedule/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:55:02.205881+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."
}