Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907

Borrowing and returning of processS

11.3.(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.