Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995

[F183ZA.Transfer of sheriff court solemn proceedings within sheriffdom: power of sheriff principalS

Where, because of exceptional circumstances which could not reasonably have been foreseen, it is not practicable for a sheriff court in a sheriffdom to proceed with some or all of the proceedings on indictment due to call at a diet, the sheriff principal may, of the sheriff principal’s own accord, make an order for—

(a)the transfer of the proceedings to a sheriff court in any other district in that sheriffdom; and

(b)adjournment to a diet of that court.]

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