Act of Sederunt (Ordinary Cause Rules) Amendment (Form of Simplified Divorce Application) 2003

Citation and commencement

1.—(1) This Act of Sederunt may be cited as the Act of Sederunt (Ordinary Cause Rules) Amendment (Form of Simplified Divorce Application) 2003, and shall come into force on 31st January 2003.

(2) This Act of Sederunt shall be inserted in the Books of Sederunt.

Amendment of Ordinary Cause Rules 1993

2.—(1) The Ordinary Cause Rules in Schedule 1 to the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraph, and any reference to an appendix or form means the appendix or form so numbered in that Schedule.

(2) In appendix 1 (forms)–

(a) in form F31, in part 1 in section 3 (jurisdiction) for parts A and B substitute parts A, B and C as set out in the Schedule to this Act of Sederunt; and

(b) in form F33, in part 1–

(i) in section 5 (Children of the Marriage) delete “5.”;

(ii) in section 6 (jurisdiction) for Parts A and B substitute Parts A, B and C as set out in the Schedule to this Act of Sederunt; and

(iii) renumber sections 6 to 13 as sections 5 to 12.

W DOUGLAS CULLEN

Lord President I.P.D.

Edinburgh

17th January 2003