Administration of Justice (Scotland) Act 1933

40 Interpretation. S

In this Act unless the context otherwise requires:—

• “The Court” means the Court of Session, and, in any provision conferring a power on the Court with regard to a cause before it, “the Court” includes a reference to a division of the Inner House or to the Lord Ordinary.

• “The Lord President” means the Lord President of the Court of Session.

• The expression “cause” includes any petition, action, case, or proceeding whatsoever competent in the Court.

• F1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• The “Act of 1868” means the M1 Court of Session Act 1868.

• The expression “solicitor” has the like meaning as in the M2 Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1933, provided that for the purpose of the construction of any provision of this Act with reference to any time prior to the first day of March, nineteen hundred and thirty-four, any reference to a solicitor shall be construed as a reference to a law agent as defined in the M3 Law Agents (Scotland) Act 1873.

• The expression “General Council of Solicitors in Scotland” means the General Council of Solicitors in Scotland constituted under the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1933.

• “Prescribed” means prescribed by Act of Sederunt under this Act.

Textual Amendments

F1 Definition repealed by Court of Session Act 1988, (c. 36, SIF 36:1), s. 52(2), Sch. 2 Pt. I

Marginal Citations

M1 1868 c. 100.

M2 1933 c. 21.

M3 1873 c. 63.