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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-First/paragraph-27A.1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-First/paragraph-27A.1.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/First/paragraph/27A.1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "27A.1",
  "heading": "Interpretation of this Chapter",
  "text": "In this Chapter—\n“appropriate date” means the date by which a pursuer’s offer could reasonably have been accepted;\n“charges” means charges for work carried out by the pursuer’s solicitor, and includes any additional charge;\n“pursuer’s offer” means an offer by a pursuer to settle a claim against a defender made in accordance with this Chapter;\n“relevant period” means the period from the appropriate date to the date of acceptance of the pursuer’s offer or, as the case may be, to the date on which judgment was given, or on which the verdict was applied.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Ch. 27A inserted (3.4.2017) by Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session 1994 and Ordinary Cause Rules 1993 Amendment) (Pursuers’ Offers) 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/52), paras. 1(2), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 rule 27A.1 substituted (29.4.2019) by Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session, Sheriff Appeal Court Rules and Ordinary Cause Rules Amendment) (Taxation of Judicial Expenses) 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/74), paras. 1(2), 3(3) (with para. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/7/51/schedule/First/paragraph/27A.1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:51.257811+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."
}