Rule 9.2 Fixing date for Options Hearing

Scotland

(1)

F1... On the lodging of a notice of intention to defend, the sheriff clerk shall fix a date and time for an Options Hearing which date shall be on the first suitable court day occurring not sooner than 10 weeks after the expiry of the period of notice.

F2(1A)

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F3(1B)

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(2)

On fixing the date for the Options Hearing, the sheriff clerk shall—

(a)

forthwith intimate to the parties in Form G5—

(i)

the last date for lodging defences;

(ii)

the last date for adjustment; and

(iii)

the date of the Options hearing; and

(b)

prepare and sign an interlocutor recording those dates.

(3)

The fixing of the date for the Options Hearing shall not affect the right of F4a party to make any incidental application to the court.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Sch. 1 rule 9.2(1) omitted (25.9.2023) by virtue of Act of Sederunt (Ordinary Cause Rules 1993 Amendment) (Case Management of Defended Family and Civil Partnership Actions) 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/289), paras. 1(2), 2(4)(a) (with para. 3)
F2: Sch. 1 rule 9.2(1A) omitted (25.9.2023) by virtue of Act of Sederunt (Ordinary Cause Rules 1993 Amendment) (Case Management of Defended Family and Civil Partnership Actions) 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/289), paras. 1(2), 2(4)(b) (with para. 3)
F3: Sch. 1 rule 9.2(1B) omitted (25.9.2023) by virtue of Act of Sederunt (Ordinary Cause Rules 1993 Amendment) (Case Management of Defended Family and Civil Partnership Actions) 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/289), paras. 1(2), 2(4)(b) (with para. 3)
F4: Words in Sch. 1 rule 9.2(3) substituted (1.11.1996) by S.I. 1996/2445, para. 3(12)

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

Notes on Chapter 9

Modifications

C1: Sch. 1 Ch. 9 excluded (1.11.2012) by Act of Sederunt (Jurisdiction in Respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of Children Rules) 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/192), para. 1(1), (6)