{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-summary-applications-statutory-applications-and-appeals-etc-rules-1999/rule-2.40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-summary-applications-statutory-applications-and-appeals-etc-rules-1999/rule-2.40.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/929",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Sederunt (Summary Applications, Statutory Applications and Appeals etc. Rules) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-summary-applications-statutory-applications-and-appeals-etc-rules-1999",
  "path": "rule/2.40",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2.40",
  "heading": "Form of intervention",
  "text": "(1) An intervention by a statutory intervener is to be by way of a written submission which (including any appendices) does not exceed 5000 words.\n(2) The statutory intervener must lodge the submission and send a copy of it to all the parties by such time as the sheriff may direct.\n(3) The sheriff may in exceptional circumstances—\n(a) allow a longer written submission to be made;\n(b) direct that an oral submission is to be made.\n(4) Where a diet is fixed pursuant to paragraph (3)(b), the sheriff clerk is to give written intimation of the diet to the statutory intervener and all the parties.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rules 2.37-2.40 substituted for rules 2.37-2.41 (1.1.2025) by Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session 1994, Sheriff Appeal Court Rules 2021 and Sheriff Court Rules Amendment) (Statutory Interveners) 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/353), paras. 1(2), 5(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/929/rule/2.40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:53:39.377865+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."
}