{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-1998/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-1998/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1898",
  "legislation_title": "The Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rules-of-the-supreme-court-amendment-1998",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Miscellaneous amendments",
  "text": "Order 17, rule 8 shall stand as paragraph (1) and, after it, there shall be inserted the following new paragraphs—\n“(2) Where in interpleader proceedings the claimant fails to appear at the hearing of the summons, the Court may direct that the sheriff’s and execution creditor’s costs shall be assessed by a master or, where the summons was heard in a district registry, by a district judge of that registry and Order 62, rule 13 shall apply.\n(3) The reference in paragraph (2) to a master shall be construed in accordance with rule 4.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1898/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:58.683236+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."
}