Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session 1994) 1994

Outer House interlocutors

4.15.  –

(1) This rule applies to interlocutors pronounced in the Outer House.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), an interlocutor pronounced by the Lord Ordinary may be written by the clerk of court and shall be signed by the Lord Ordinary.

(3) Subject to any direction he may be given by the Lord Ordinary, a depute clerk of session may sign an interlocutor, other than a final interlocutor, in respect of a motion which is not starred; and that interlocutor shall be treated for all purposes as if it had been signed by the Lord Ordinary.

(4) An interlocutor may be signed during session or in vacation.

(5) An extract of an interlocutor which is not signed in accordance with the provisions of this rule shall be void and of no effect.

(6) An interlocutor may, on cause shown, be corrected or altered at any time before extract by–

(a) the Lord Ordinary who signed it or on whose behalf it was signed; or

(b) in the event of the death, disability or absence of the Lord Ordinary, any other judge of the court.