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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/upper-tribunal-for-scotland-rules-of-procedure-regulations-2016/schedule/rule-1",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2016/232",
  "legislation_title": "The Upper Tribunal for Scotland (Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/upper-tribunal-for-scotland-rules-of-procedure-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/rule/1",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules—\n“the 2014 Act” means the Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014;\n“the 2024 Act” means the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Incorporation) (Scotland) Act 2024;\n“Appeal Appendix” means all the documents and authorities to be relied on for the purpose of the appeal along with an inventory;\n“appellant” means—\n(a)a person who makes an appeal to the Upper Tribunal;\n(b)a person who has had an application to the First-tier Tribunal transferred to the Upper Tribunal; or\n(c)in any case, a person substituted as an appellant under rule 11(1) (addition, substitution and removal of parties);\n“compatibility question” has the meaning given by section 31(1) of the 2024 Act;\n“Convention rights” has the meaning given to it in section 1 of the Human Rights Act 1998;\n“document” means anything in which information is recorded in any form;\n“excluded decision” means a decision referred to in section 51 of the 2014 Act;\n“hearing” means an oral hearing and includes a hearing conducted in whole or in part by video link, telephone or other means of instantaneous two-way electronic communication;\n“interested party” means a person other than the appellant or respondent on whom the First-tier Tribunal has ordered the proceedings before it to be served;\n“party” means a person who is (or was at the time that the Upper Tribunal disposed of the proceedings) an appellant or respondent in proceedings before the Upper Tribunal;\n“practice direction” means a practice direction issued in terms of section 74 of the 2014 Act;\n“President” means the President of Tribunals;\n“proceedings” includes, unless indicated otherwise, a part of the proceedings;\n“relevant authorities” means the Lord Advocate, the Commissioner for Children and Young People in Scotland or the Scottish Commission for Human Rights;\n“respondent” means—\n(a)in an appeal against a decision of the First-tier Tribunal, that tribunal and any person other than the appellant who—\n(i)was a party before the First-tier Tribunal;\n(ii)otherwise has a right of appeal against the decision of the First-tier Tribunal and has given notice to the Upper Tribunal that they wish to be a party to the appeal;\n(b)in proceedings transferred or referred to the Upper Tribunal from the First-tier Tribunal, a person who was a respondent in the proceedings in the First-tier Tribunal; or\n(c)in any case, a person substituted or added as a respondent under rule 11 (addition, substitution and removal of parties);\n“review period” means the time period between an application by a party for a review under rule 30(1), or, as the case may be, the Upper Tribunal’s decision to review a decision under that rule, and the receipt by a party of a notification under rule 30(6); and\n“witness statement” means a written statement of a witness ordered by the Upper Tribunal to stand for the evidence-in-chief of the witness.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in sch. rule 1 inserted (1.4.2026) by The Upper Tribunal for Scotland (Procedure Rules) (Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/33), regs. 1, 2(2)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in sch. rule 1 inserted (1.4.2026) by The Upper Tribunal for Scotland (Procedure Rules) (Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/33), regs. 1, 2(2)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in sch. rule 1 inserted (1.4.2026) by The Upper Tribunal for Scotland (Procedure Rules) (Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/33), regs. 1, 2(2)(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. rule 1 in force at 1.12.2016, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c.42."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/232/schedule/rule/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:23:12.218515+00:00"
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  "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."
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