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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014/section-109",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014/section-109.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2014/18",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-reform-scotland-act-2014",
  "path": "section/109",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "109",
  "heading": "Abolition of appeal from a sheriff to the sheriff principal",
  "text": "(1) No appeal may be taken to the sheriff principal against any decision of a sheriff in civil proceedings.\n(2) Subsection (3) applies to any provision of any pre-commencement enactment that—\n(a) provides for an appeal to the sheriff principal from any decision of a sheriff in civil proceedings, or\n(b) restricts or excludes any such appeal.\n(3) The provision has effect as if for the reference to the sheriff principal there were substituted a reference to the Sheriff Appeal Court.\n(4) In subsection (2), “pre-commencement enactment” means an enactment passed or made before this section comes into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 109 in force at 1.1.2016 by S.S.I. 2015/378, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/18/section/109",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:59.973943+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."
}