{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nautical-assessors-scotland-act-1894/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nautical-assessors-scotland-act-1894/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/57-58/40",
  "legislation_title": "Nautical Assessors (Scotland) Act 1894",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nautical-assessors-scotland-act-1894",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Assessors in the Supreme Court.",
  "text": "For the hearing and determination of any appeal against a judgment of any Scottish Court in any such action or proceeding as aforesaid, the Supreme Court may, if it shall think it expedient to do so, call in the aid of one or more assessors specially qualified, and hear such appeal wholly or partially with the assistance of such assessor or assessors.\nThis section shall be carried into effect in pursuance of Supreme Court Rules.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 6 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 40(4), 148(1), Sch. 9 para. 2(b); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(a)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 6 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 40(4), 148(1), Sch. 9 para. 2(c); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(a)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in sidenote to s. 6 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 40(4), 148(1), Sch. 9 para. 2(a); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(a)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/57-58/40/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:30:25.647160+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."
}