{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-1/part-1/chapter-13A/rule-13A.4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-1/part-1/chapter-13A/rule-13A.4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/7/51",
  "legislation_title": "Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/1/chapter/13A/rule/13A.4",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "13A.4",
  "heading": "Form of intervention",
  "text": "(1) An intervention by a statutory intervener is to be by way of a written submission which (including any appendices) does not exceed 5000 words.\n(2) The statutory intervener must lodge the submission and send a copy of it to all the parties by such time as the sheriff may direct.\n(3) The sheriff may in exceptional circumstances—\n(a) allow a longer written submission to be made;\n(b) direct that an oral submission is to be made.\n(4) Where a diet is fixed pursuant to paragraph (3)(b), the sheriff clerk is to give written intimation of the diet to the statutory intervener and all the parties.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Ch. 13A substituted for Chs. 13A, 13B (1.1.2025) by Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session 1994, Sheriff Appeal Court Rules 2021 and Sheriff Court Rules Amendment) (Statutory Interveners) 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/353), paras. 1(2), 4(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2014/18",
      "affecting_title": "Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/7/51/schedule/1/part/1/chapter/13A/rule/13A.4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:33:48.281591+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."
}