(1)A petition for warrant to arrest and commit a person suspected of or charged with crime may be in the forms—
(a)set out in Schedule 2 to this Act; or
(b)prescribed by Act of Adjournal,
or as nearly as may be in such form; and Schedule 3 to this Act shall apply to any such petition as it applies to the indictment.
(2)If on the application of the procurator fiscal, a sheriff is satisfied that there is reasonable ground for suspecting that an offence has been or is being committed by a body corporate, the sheriff shall have the like power to grant warrant for the citation of witnesses and the production of documents and articles as he would have if a petition charging an individual with the commission of the offence were presented to him.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 34(2) applied (26.10.2023 for specified purposes) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), ss. 203(1)(2), 219(1)(2)(b)
C2S. 34(2) applied (26.12.2023 for specified purposes) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), ss. 198(1)(2), 219(3)(c)