SCHEDULES

F1First ScheduleS ORDINARY CAUSE RULES 1993

Textual Amendments

F1Sch. 1 (with appendices 1 and 2) substituted (1.1.1994) for Sch. 1 (with appendix) by S.I. 1993/1956, para. 2, Sch.1.

Sch. 1 (except rule 29.10) excluded (1.4.1997) by S.I. 1997/291, rule 3.24, Sch. 3

Sch. 1 extended (14.2.2000) by S.I. 2000/124, reg. 30(5)

Initiation and progress of causesS

CHAPTER 13S PARTY MINUTER PROCEDURE

Procedure following leave to enter processS

13.2.(1)Where a party minuter lodges [F2defences], the sheriff clerk shall fix a date and time under rule 9.2 for a hearing under rule 9.12 (Options Hearing) as if the party minuter had lodged a notice of intention to defend and the period of notice had expired on the date for lodging answers.

(2)At the Options Hearing, or at any time thereafter, the sheriff may grant such decree or other order as he thinks fit.

(3)A decree or other order against the party minuter shall have effect and be extractable in the same way as a decree or other order against a defender.

Textual Amendments

F2Word in rule 13.2(1) substituted (1.11.1996) by S.I. 1996/2445, para. 3(18)