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The Human Rights Act 1998 (Jurisdiction) (Scotland) Rules 2000

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These Rules—

(a)specify, for the purposes of section 7(1)(a) of the Human Rights Act 1998 (“the Act”), the appropriate court or tribunal within which proceedings may be brought (rule 3); and

(b)prescribe the Court of Session, for the purposes of section 9(1)(c) of the Act, as the forum in which proceedings may be brought that cannot be brought by—

(i)exercising a right of appeal; or

(ii)raising a petition for judicial review (rule 4).

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