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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014-commencement-no-2-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2015/article-7",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2015/77",
  "legislation_title": "The Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (Commencement No. 2, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014-commencement-no-2-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2015",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Saving for existing subordinate legislation",
  "text": "(1) Despite the coming into force of paragraphs 4(f), 6(2), 26, 28 and 30(3) of schedule 5 to the Act (which repeal the enactments specified in paragraph (2)), any subordinate legislation made under an enactment specified in paragraph (2) continues to have effect.\n(2) The enactments are—\n(a) section 2 of the Court of Law Fees (Scotland) Act 1895 (power of Scottish Ministers to regulate court fees);\n(b) section 6 of the Execution of Diligence (Scotland) Act 1926 (regulations, forms and fees);\n(c) section 40 of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907 (Court of Session to regulate fees etc.);\n(d) in the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971—\n(i) section 32 (power of Court of Session to regulate civil procedure in sheriff court);\n(ii) section 32A (rules for lay representation); and\n(iii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) in the Court of Session Act 1988—\n(i) section 5 (power to regulate procedure etc. by act of sederunt);\n(ii) section 5A (rules for lay representation); and\n(iii) section 6 (allocation of business etc. by act of sederunt).\n(3) In paragraph (2), a reference to an enactment includes a reference to that enactment as extended, applied or modified by any other enactment.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 7(2)(d)(iii) revoked (22.9.2015) by The Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (Consequential Provisions No. 2) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/338), art. 1, sch. 1 para. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 7 in force at 1.4.2015, see art. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1895 c.14; section 2 was substituted by the Divorce Jurisdiction, Court Fees and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1983 (c.12), section 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1926 c.16."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1907 c.51."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 32A was added by the Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 16), section 127(b)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1988 c.36."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Section 5A was added by the Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 16), section 126(b)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/77/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:30:54.287650+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."
}