Act of Sederunt (Sheriff Court European Small Claims Procedure Rules) 2008

Explanatory note

Reproduced verbatim from the instrument as published on legislation.gov.uk (Crown Copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0). The note is prepared by the responsible government department and is not part of the instrument itself.

Regulation (EC) No.861/2007 of the European Parliament and the Council of 11th July 2007 creates a European Small Claims Procedure. This Act of Sederunt provides rules in connection with proceedings in the sheriff court under that procedure. In particular, it provides:

rules on communications by the court under the Regulation (see rule 3);

rules on what happens when an application under that procedure is determined to be outside the scope of the Regulation (see rule 4); and

rules on the form of certain ancillary applications under the Regulation (see rule 5).