{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-small-claim-rules-1988/schedule/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-small-claim-rules-1988/schedule/paragraph-8.json",
  "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/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Response to summons where defender intends to appear",
  "text": "(1) Where the defender intends—\n(a) to challenge the jurisdiction of the court;\n(b) to defend the small claim;\n(c) to dispute the amount of the small claim; or\n(d) to admit the small claim and make oral application for a time to pay direction (including, where appropriate, an application for recall or restriction of an arrestment),\nhe shall intimate his intention to appear by completing the appropriate part of the form of response attached to the service copy summons and shall lodge it with the sheriff clerk on or before the return date.\n(2) A defender who intends to defend a small claim and has delivered a form of response to the sheriff clerk may, at any time prior to the date of the preliminary hearing of the small claim, lodge a written note of the defence which he proposes to state at the preliminary hearing.\n(3) Where the defender has delivered a written note of his proposed defence to the small claim to the sheriff clerk, the defender shall, at the same time, send a copy of it to the pursuer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1976/schedule/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}