Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995

2 (1) If the court by which a probation order was made, or the appropriate court, is satisfied that the probationer proposes to change or has changed his residence from the area of a local authority named in the order to the area of another local authority, the court may, and if application is made in that behalf by the officer supervising the probationer shall, by order, amend the probation order by—

(a) substituting for the area named therein that other area; and

(b) naming the appropriate court to which all the powers of the court by which the order was made shall be transferred and shall require the local authority for that other area to arrange for the probationer to be under the supervision of an officer of that authority.

(2) Subject to sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) below, the court to be named as the appropriate court in any amendment of a probation order in pursuance of sub-paragraph (1) above shall be a court exercising jurisdiction in the place where the probationer resides or is to reside and shall be a sheriff court or district court according to whether the probation order was made by a sheriff court or district court.

(3) If the probation order was made by a district court and there is no district court exercising jurisdiction in the place mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) above,the court to be named shall be the sheriff court.

(4) If the probation order contains requirements which in the opinion of the court cannot be complied with unless the probationer continues to reside in the local authority area named in the order, the court shall not amend the order as mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) above unless, in accordance with the following provisions of this Schedule, it cancels those requirements or substitutes therefor other requirements which can be so complied with.

(5) Where a probation order is amended under this paragraph, the clerk of the court amending it shall send to the clerk of the appropriate court four copies of the order together with such documents and information relating to the case as the court amending the order considers likely to be of assistance to the appropriate court, and the clerk of that court shall send one copy of the probation order to the local authority of the substituted local authority area and two copies to the officer supervising the probationer, one of which the supervising officer shall give to the probationer.

(6) The foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall, in a case where the probation order was made by the High Court, have effect subject to the following modifications—

(a) the court shall not name an appropriate court, but may substitute for the local authority named in the order, the local authority for the area in which the probationer is to reside;

(b) the Clerk of Justiciary shall send to the chief social work officer of that area in which the probationer is to reside three copies of the amending order together with such documents and information relating to the case as is likely to be of assistance to the chief social work officer, and the chief social work officer shall send two copies of the amending order to the officer supervising the probationer, one of which the supervising officer shall give to the probationer.