SCHEDULES

F1first schedule ORDINARY CAUSE RULES 1993

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F1

Sch. 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

CHAPTER 11THE PROCESS

11 Borrowing and returning of process

1

Subject to paragraph (3), a process, or any part of a process which may be borrowed, may be borrowed only by a solicitor or by his authorised clerk.

2

All remedies competent to enforce the return of a borrowed process may proceed on the warrant of the court from the custody of which the process was obtained.

3

A party litigant—

a

may borrow a process only—

i

with leave of the sheriff; and

ii

subject to such conditions as the sheriff may impose; or

b

may inspect a process and obtain copies, where practicable, from the sheriff clerk.

4

The sheriff may, on the motion of any party, ordain any other party who has borrowed a part of process to return it within such time as the sheriff thinks fit.