{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1988/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1988/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/36",
  "legislation_title": "Court of Session Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1988",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Lord Advocate to sue and be sued on behalf of the Crown.",
  "text": "Except where any enactment otherwise provides, all exchequer causes brought—\n(a) on behalf of the Crown, shall be at the instance of the appropriate Law Officer within the meaning of section 4A of the Crown Suits (Scotland) Act 1857;\n(b) by any person alleging any ground of action against the Crown, shall be directed against the appropriate Law Officer within the meaning of section 4A of the Crown Suits (Scotland) Act 1857.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 22(a)(b) substituted (20.5.1999) by 1999/1042, arts. 1(2)(b), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/36/section/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:52.535668+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."
}