# Act of Sederunt (Summary Applications, Statutory Applications and Appeals etc. Rules) 1999, Rule 3.16.10: Caution and Other Security


(1) Where the sheriff requires a person authorised under an intervention order or any variation of an intervention order, or appointed as a guardian, to find caution he shall specify the amount and period within which caution is to be found in the interlocutor authorising or appointing the person or varying the order (as the case may be).
(1A) The amount of caution specified by the sheriff in paragraph (1) may be calculated and expressed as a percentage of the value of the adult’s estate.
(2) The sheriff may, on application made by motion before the expiry of the period for finding caution and on cause shown, allow further time for finding caution in accordance with paragraph (1).
(3) Caution shall be lodged with the Public Guardian.
(4) Where caution has been lodged to the satisfaction of the Public Guardian he shall notify the sheriff clerk.
(5) The sheriff may at any time while a requirement to find caution is in force–
(a) increase the amount of, or require the person to find new, caution; or
(b) authorise the amount of caution to be decreased.
(6) Where the sheriff requires the person referred to in paragraph (1) to give security other than caution, the rules of Chapter 27 of the Ordinary Cause Rules shall apply with the necessary modifications.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/929/rule/3.16.10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-summary-applications-statutory-applications-and-appeals-etc-rules-1999/rule-3.16.10
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