{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1971/section-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1971/section-36.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/58",
  "legislation_title": "Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1971",
  "path": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Procedure in summary causes.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) A summary cause shall be commenced by a summons in, or as nearly as is practicable in, such form as may be prescribed by rules under the said section 32.\n(3) The evidence, if any, given in a summary cause shall not be recorded.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act (except for ss. 2(3), 3(4)) repealed (S.) (1.4.2015 except for the repeal of ss. 31, 35, 36(2)(3), 36A, 36B, 37, 38, 45, 22.9.2015 for the repeal of ss. 31, 37(1)(b)(2A)(2D), 28.11.2016 for the repeal of ss. 35(2)-(4), 36A, 36B, 37(2B)(2C) and the repeal of specified words in s. 38(b)) by Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), s. 138(2), sch. 5 para. 6(2); S.S.I. 2015/77, art. 2(2)(3), sch. (with art. 7); S.S.I. 2015/247, art. 2, sch. (with art. 9); S.S.I. 2016/291, art. 2, sch. (with art. 3(1)(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 36(3) excluded by Maintenance Orders (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1972 (c. 18), s. 4(4)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/58/section/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:43.356398+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."
}