http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/507/article/2/madeThe Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (Privative Jurisdiction and Summary Cause) Order 2007Local GovernmentKing's Printer for Scotland2011-07-04SHERIFF COURT This Order raises the limit of the privative (or exclusive) jurisdiction of the sheriff court and the limit of the summary cause from £1500 to £5000. The new limits do not apply to proceedings commenced before the Order comes into force. The Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (Privative Jurisdiction and Summary Cause) Order 2007art. 2The Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (Consequential Provisions No. 2) Order 2015Sch. 1 para. 3art. 1 The Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (Privative Jurisdiction and Summary Cause) Order 2007 2 In section 31 of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971, for the sum of one thousand five hundred pounds substitute the sum of £5000. The sum specified in section 31 was substituted by S.I. 1976/900 and 1988/1993.