The Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2015

Proceedings in an all-Scotland sheriff court.

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9.—(1) Section 35(1) of the 1971 Act (summary causes), so far as requiring any relevant proceedings to be brought as a summary cause, does not apply to any such proceedings in an all-Scotland sheriff court, and no such proceedings may be brought or continued in such a court as a summary cause.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not affect the application of section 35(1) of the 1971 Act in relation to any relevant proceedings brought in any other sheriff court.

(3) In this article, “relevant proceedings” means proceedings of a type mentioned in section 35(1)(a) of the 1971 Act so far as they are also of a type specified in an order under section 41(1) (power to confer all-Scotland jurisdiction for specified cases) of the Act.