{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/exchequer-court-scotland-act-1856/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/exchequer-court-scotland-act-1856/section-21.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/19-20/56",
  "legislation_title": "Exchequer Court (Scotland) Act 1856",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/exchequer-court-scotland-act-1856",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Suspension, where competent, to be by note in the Bill Chamber in common form; and when note passed case to depend before Lord Ordinary in Exchequer causes.",
  "text": "Any suspension may be competently brought at the instance or on the behalf of Her Majesty, or of any subject, of any decree, charge, threatened charge, or diligence whatever in any cause or matter connected with the Exchequer, in the like manner and to the same extent and effect as if such decree, charge, threatened charge, or diligence were in causes or matters connected with any ordinary Court of Session process or procedure; and the application for such suspension may be made in the Bill Chamber by note of suspension in ordinary form, and the proceedings under the same shall thereafter be conducted as in any ordinary Court of Session process of the like nature: Provided, that on any such note of suspension being passed and enrolled the Lord Ordinary in Exchequer causes shall be the Lord Ordinary in such process.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 15, 16, 19–23, 25–28repealed (S.) by Court of Session Act 1988 (c. 36, SIF 36:1), s. 52(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I (and re-enacted in part as referred to in Sch. 2 Pt. II of that Act)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/19-20/56/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:17:24.646157+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."
}