Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995

145 Adjournment for inquiry at first calling. S

(1) [F1 Where the accused is present] at the first calling of a case in a summary prosecution the court may, in order to allow time for inquiry into the case or for any other cause which it considers reasonable, adjourn the case under this section, for such period as it considers appropriate, without calling on the accused to plead to any charge against him but remanding him in custody or on bail or ordaining him to appear at the diet thus fixed; and, subject to subsections (2) and (3) below, the court may from time to time so adjourn the case.

(2) Where the accused is remanded in custody, the total period for which he is so remanded under this section shall not exceed 21 days and no one period of adjournment shall, except on special cause shown, exceed 7 days.

(3) Where the accused is remanded on bail or ordained to appear, no one period of adjournment shall exceed 28 days.

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F1 Words in s. 145(1) substituted (27.6.2003) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. 63(3), 89; S.S.I. 2003/288, art. 2, Sch.