Section 51 Interpretation

In this Act unless the context otherwise requires—

• “action” means a cause initiated by a summons;

• “the Court” means the Court of Session and, in any provision conferring a power on the Court with regard to a cause before it, means, as the case may be, a Division of the Inner House, a Division sitting with an additional judge or judges or a Lord Ordinary;

• “enactment” includes an act of sederuntF1and an enactment comprised in, or in an instrument made under, an Act of the Scottish Parliament;

• “the Inner House” means, in any provision conferring power on it, a Division thereof;

• “the Lord President” means the Lord President of the Court of Session;

• “prescribed” means prescribed by act of sederunt;

• “solicitor” has the same meaning as in section 65(1) of the M1Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980.