{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-1/part-1/chapter-9/rule-9.2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-1/part-1/chapter-9/rule-9.2.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/9/rule/9.2",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "9.2",
  "heading": "Fixing date for Options Hearing",
  "text": "(1) ... 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.\n(1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(1B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) On fixing the date for the Options Hearing, the sheriff clerk shall—\n(a) forthwith intimate to the parties in Form G5—\n(i) the last date for lodging defences;\n(ii) the last date for adjustment; and\n(iii) the date of the Options hearing; and\n(b) prepare and sign an interlocutor recording those dates.\n(3) The fixing of the date for the Options Hearing shall not affect the right of a party to make any incidental application to the court.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 rule 9.2(3) substituted (1.11.1996) by S.I. 1996/2445, para. 3(12)"
    }
  ],
  "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/9/rule/9.2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:34:13.908359+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."
}