§ (STANDING ORDER I. IS ONLY APPLICABLE TO DECREES, ETC., PRONEUNCED ON AND AFTER THE 1ST DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1876.)
§ Ordered, that, EXCEPT WHERE OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY STATUTE, no petition of appeal be received by this House unless the same be lodged in the Parliament Office for presentation to the House within one year from the date of the last decree, order, judgment, or interlocutor appealed from.
§ IN cases in which the person entitled to appeal BE is within the age of one and twenty years, or covert, non compos mentis, imprisoned, or out of Great Britain and Ireland, such person may be at liberty to present his appeal to the House, provided that the same be lodged in the Parliament Office within one year next after full age, discoverture, coming of sound mind, enlargement out of prison, coming into Great Britain or Ireland: But in no case shall any person or persons be allowed a longer time, on account of mere absence, to present an appeal, than five years from the date of the last decree, 1296 order, judgment, or interlocutor appealed against.
§ Provided that this Standing Order shall not apply to any appeal from the Court of Session in Scotland against a final interlocutor or interlocutory judgment pronounced before the first day of June, 1907; but no such appeal shall be received by this House after the first day of June, 1908.