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Administration of Justice (Scotland) Act 1972

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 13 Cited in Amendments 66 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1972 c. 59
(1) Without prejudice to the existing powers of the Court of SessionF9, of the Sheriff Appeal Court and of the sheriff court, those courts shall have power, subject to the provisions of subsection (4) of this section, to order the inspection, photographing, preservation, custody and detention of documents and other property (including, where appropriate, land) which appear to the court to be property as to which any question may relevantly arise in any existing civil proceedings before that court or in civil proceedings which are likely to be brought, and to order the production and recovery of any such property, the taking of samples thereof and the carrying out of any experiment thereon or therewith.might be witnesses in any existing civil proceedings before that court or in civil proceedings which are likely to be brought; ormight be defenders in any civil proceedings which appear to the court to be likely to be brought.where proceedings have been commenced, on the application, at any time after such commencement, of a party to or minuter in the proceedings, or any other person who appears to the court to have an interest to be joined as such party or minuter;where proceedings have not been commenced, on the application at any time of a person who appears to the court to be likely to be a party to or minuter in proceedings which are likely to be brought;(3) The powers conferred on the Court of Session by F6section 103(1) of the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 to regulate its own procedure and the powers conferred on that Court by F8section 104(1) of the Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 to regulate the procedure of the sheriff court F7and the Sheriff Appeal Court shall include power to regulate and prescribe the procedure to be followed, and the form of any document to be used, in any application under the foregoing provisions of this section in a case where the application is in respect of proceedings which have not been commenced, and such incidental, supplementary and consequential provisions as appear appropriate; and without prejudice to the said generality, the said powers shall include

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