SCHEDULES

F1first scheduleS ORDINARY CAUSE RULES 1993

Textual Amendments

F1Sch. 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)

[F1Initiation andprogress of causes]S

CHAPTER 7S UNDEFENDED CAUSES

Finality of decree in absenceS

7.5.Subject to section 9(7) of the M1Land Tenure Reform (Scotland) Act 1974 (decree in action of removing for breach of condition of long lease to be final when extract recorded in Register of Sasines), a decree in absence which has not been recalled or brought under review by suspension or by reduction shall become final and shall have effect as a decree in foro contentioso—

(a)on the expiry of six months from the date of the decree or from the date of a charge made under it, [F2as the case may be,]where the service of the initial writ or of the charge has been personal; and

(b)in any event, on the expiry of 20 years from the date of the decree.

Textual Amendments

F2Words in rule 7.5(a) inserted (1.11.1996) by S.I. 1996/2445, para. 3(9)

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