{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-etc-fees-order-2026/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2026/80",
  "legislation_title": "The Court of Session etc. Fees Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/court-of-session-etc-fees-order-2026",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order–\n“Office of Court” has the same meaning as in rule 3.1 of the Rules of Court,\n“partner” means a person to whom a person is married, or with whom the person is in a civil partnership,\n“Rules of Court” means the Rules of the Court of Session 1994.\n(2) For the purposes of any reference in this Order to a “party”—\n(a) except in relation to a special case, a set of persons with the same interest, for whom one and the same first paper is or has been lodged, is to be treated as a single party, and\n(b) in relation to a special case, each person or set of persons who appear as one of the separate parties to the case is to be treated as a party.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Rules of the Court of Session 1994 are in schedule 2 of the Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session 1994) 1994 (S.I. 1994/1443, as last relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2025/80, which itself was amended by S.S.I. 2025/171)."
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2026/80/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:31:20.197748+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."
}