{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1988/section-27A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1988/section-27A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/36",
  "legislation_title": "Court of Session Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-act-1988",
  "path": "section/27A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27A",
  "heading": "Time limits",
  "text": "(1) An application to the supervisory jurisdiction of the Court must be made before the end of—\n(a) the period of 3 months beginning with the date on which the grounds giving rise to the application first arise, or\n(b) such longer period as the Court considers equitable having regard to all the circumstances.\n(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to an application to the supervisory jurisdiction of the Court which, by virtue of any enactment, is to be made before the end of a period ending before the period of 3 months mentioned in that subsection (however that first-ending period may be expressed).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 27A-27D and cross-heading inserted (22.9.2015) by Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), ss. 89, 138(2); S.S.I. 2015/247, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/36/section/27A",
    "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."
}