Part 7Sexual Offences Court
Chapter 4Procedure
Double jeopardy
100Exception to rule against double jeopardy in the Sexual Offences Court: new evidence
(1)
The Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Act 2011 is amended as follows.
(2)
In section 4 (new evidence)—
(a)
in subsection (1), after “High Court” insert “or the Sexual Offences Court”
,
(b)
in subsection (3)(b)(ii), after “High Court” insert “or, as the case may be, the Sexual Offences Court”
.
(3)
In section 9(2) (plea in bar of trial: nullity of previous trial)—
(a)
before paragraph (a) insert—
“(za)
the Sexual Offences Court,”,
(b)
in the closing words, before “sheriff” insert “Judge of the Sexual Offences Court,”
.