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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-sederunt-summary-applications-statutory-applications-and-appeals-etc-rules-1999/rule-3.4.5",
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  "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/3.4.5",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "3.4.5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where a defender opposes an application, the sheriff may order answers to be lodged within such period that the sheriff specifies.\n(2) The answers must—\n(a) specify the name and particulars of all persons known by the defender to be entitled residents who have not already been named in the initial writ; and crave warrant for intimation to such persons; or\n(b) state that to the best of the defender’s knowledge there are no other entitled residents.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ch. 3 Pt. 4 substituted (30.9.2010) by Act of Sederunt (Sheriff Court Rules) (Enforcement of Securities over Heritable Property) 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/324), paras. 1(1), 2(4) (with para. 2(12))"
    }
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  },
  "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."
}