Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907 (c. 51)

SCHEDULES

F1 First Schedule S ORDINARY CAUSE RULES 1993

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 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)

Special provisions in relation to particular causes S

[F2 CHAPTER 42 S

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 1 Ch. 42 inserted (20.8.2004) by Act of Sederunt (Ordinary Cause Rules) Amendment (Competition Appeal Tribunal) 2004 (S.S.I. 2004/350), art. 2

COMPETITION APPEAL TRIBUNAL S

Interpretation S

42.1. In this Chapter–

• “the 1998 Act” means the Competition Act 1998 F3 ; and

• “the Tribunal” means the Competition Appeal Tribunal established by section 12 of the Enterprise Act 2002.

Textual Amendments

F3 1998 c. 41.

Transfer of proceedings to the Tribunal S

42.2. (1) A party in proceedings for a monetary claim to which section 47A of the 1998 Act F4 applies may apply by motion to the sheriff for an order transferring the proceedings, or any part of them, to the Tribunal.

(2) Where the sheriff orders that such proceedings (or any part of them) are transferred to the Tribunal, the sheriff clerk shall, within 7 days from the date of such order–

(a) transmit the process (or the appropriate part) to the clerk of the Tribunal;

(b) notify each party to the proceedings in writing of the transmission under sub paragraph (a); and

(c) certify, by making an appropriate entry on the interlocutor sheet, that he has made all notifications required under sub paragraph (b).

(3) Transmission of the process under paragraph (2)(a) shall be valid notwithstanding any failure by the sheriff clerk to comply with paragraph (2)(b) and (c).]

Textual Amendments

F4 Section 47A was inserted by the Enterprise Act 2002, section 18.