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Chapter 28 RECOVERY OF EVIDENCE

Scotland

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

  1. 28.1Application and interpretation of this Chapter
  2. 28.2Applications for commission and diligence for recovery of documents or for orders under section 1 of the Act of 1972
  3. 28.3Optional procedure before executing commission and diligence
  4. 28.3AOptional procedure where there is a party litigant
  5. 28.4Execution of commission and diligence for recovery of documents
  6. 28.5Execution of orders for production or recovery of documents or other property under section 1(1) of the Act of 1972
  7. 28.6Execution of orders for inspection etc. of documents or other property under section 1(1) of the Act of 1972
  8. 28.7Execution of orders for preservation etc. of documents or other property under section 1(1) of the Act of 1972
  9. 28.8Confidentiality
  10. 28.9Warrants for production of original documents from public records
  11. 28.10Commissions for examination of witnesses
  12. 28.11Commissions on interrogatories
  13. 28.12Commissions without interrogatories
  14. 28.13Evidence taken on commission
  15. 28.14Letters of request
  16. 28.14ATaking of evidence in the European Union
  17. 28.15Citation of witnesses and havers

Notes on Schedule First

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 1 (with appendices 1 and 2) substituted (1.1.1994) for Sch. 1 (with appendix) by S.I. 1993/1956, para. 2, Sch.1.

Sch. 1 (except rule 29.10) excluded (1.4.1997) by S.I. 1997/291, para. 3.24, Sch. 3

Sch. 1 extended (14.2.2000) by S.I. 2000/124, reg. 30(5)

Modifications

C1

Sch. 1 applied (30.11.2016) by Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 21), ss. 121(5), 237(2) (with ss. 232, 234(3), 235, 236); S.S.I. 2016/294, reg. 2

C2

Sch. 1 modified (1.12.2025) by Act of Sederunt (Intimation and Service) 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/301), paras. 1(2), (4), 2 (with para. 1(5))

C3

Sch. 1 modified (1.12.2025) by Act of Sederunt (Electronic Signature and Electronic Transmission of Documents) 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/302), paras. 1(2), 2(1), 3-5