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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-First/paragraph-4A.3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1907/schedule-First/paragraph-4A.3.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/4A.3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4A.3",
  "heading": "Alternative mode of attendance at hearings",
  "text": "(1) The sheriff may, at the sheriff’s own instance or on the motion of a party on cause shown—\n(a) in relation to hearings to which rule 4A.2(1) applies, order physical attendance at a hearing;\n(b) in relation to any other hearings, order attendance at a hearing by electronic means.\n(2) The sheriff may revoke an order granted under paragraph (1) or this paragraph and, where the sheriff does so, the sheriff may make such further order as the sheriff thinks fit.\n(3) Before the sheriff makes an order under paragraph (1) or (2), the sheriff is to give parties the opportunity to make representations about the mode of attendance.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Ch. 4A inserted (3.7.2023) by Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session 1994 and Ordinary Cause Rules 1993 Amendment) (Attendance at Hearings) 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/168), paras. 1(2), 3(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/7/51/schedule/First/paragraph/4A.3",
    "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."
}