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      SCOTTISH STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

      2000 No. 30

      COURT OF SESSION, SCOTLAND

      Act of Sederunt (Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers Rules) (Amendment) 2000

        Made 11th February 2000 
        Coming into force 11th March 2000 

      The Lords of Council and Session, under and by virtue of the powers conferred on them by section 75 of the Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987[1] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, do hereby enact and declare:

      Citation and commencement
           1.  - (1) This Act of Sederunt may be cited as the Act of Sederunt (Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers Rules) (Amendment) 2000 and shall come into force on 11th March 2000.

          (2) This Act of Sederunt shall be inserted in the Books of Sederunt.

      Amendment of 1991 Rules
                 2.  - (1) The Act of Sederunt (Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers Rules) 1991[2] shall be amended in accordance with the following sub-paragraphs.

          (2) In rule 9(2)(b) (caution and professional indemnity insurance), for the words "on the list of guarantee companies approved by the Lord President under rule 200(e)(iv) of the Rules of the Court of Session" there shall be substituted "authorised under section 3 or 4 of the Insurance Companies Act 1982 to carry on insurance business of class 15 in Schedule 2 to that Act".

          (3) In rule 21(2) (disciplinary proceedings against messengers-at-arms), leave out the words "rules 191 to 198", and after the word "Session" insert the words "which make provision as respects proceedings by way of petition to the Outer House of the Court of Session".

          (4) In rule 27(2) (appeals),

        (a) for the words "rule 290" there shall be substituted "chapter 38";

        (b) after "appeal" there shall be inserted "from a Lord Ordinary"; and

        (c) at the end there shall be inserted "and chapter 40 of the Rules of the Court of Session shall apply to an appeal from a sheriff principal under section 82 of the Act of 1987".


      Rodger of Earlsferry
      Lord President I.P.D

      Edinburgh,
      11th February 2000

      EXPLANATORY NOTE

      (This note is not part of the Act of Sederunt)

      This Act of Sederunt amends paragraphs 9(2)(b), 21(2) and 27(2) of the Act of Sederunt (Messengers-at-Arms and Sheriff Officers Rules) 1991 by correcting the references to the Rules of the Court of Session which appear in each of those paragraphs.

       [1] 1987 c.18back

      [2] S.I. 1991/1397back


      ISBN 0 11 059256 5


 



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