{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-factors-scotland-act-2025/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-factors-scotland-act-2025/section-21.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/3",
  "legislation_title": "Judicial Factors (Scotland) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-factors-scotland-act-2025",
  "path": "section/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Enforcing or defending claims",
  "text": "(1) A judicial factor must enforce or defend any claim in relation to the factory estate provided that the judicial factor is satisfied that to do so would be reasonable and prudent in all the circumstances.\n(2) The judicial factor may consult the Accountant as to whether it would be reasonable and prudent to enforce or defend the claim in a particular case.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 21 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 54(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/3/section/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:01.167576+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."
}