PART IV Petition Procedure

Warrants

34 Petition for warrant.

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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.

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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.