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<Text>More than one sitting of the Sexual Offences Court may take place at the same time, and at different places.</Text>
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<Text>Sittings of the Sexual Offences Court may be held at any place in Scotland.</Text>
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<Text>The President of the Sexual Offences Court may by order prescribe—</Text>
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<Text>the number of sittings of the Sexual Offences Court that are to be held at each place at which they may be held, and</Text>
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<Text>the days on which, and the times at which, those sittings are to be held.</Text>
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<Text>Before making an order under <InternalLink Ref="section-79-3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/12/section/79/3" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/12/section/79/3/enacted">subsection (3)</InternalLink>, the President must consult—</Text>
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<Text>the Lord Justice General, if the Lord Justice General is not the President,</Text>
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<Text>the Lord Advocate.</Text>
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<Text>The President must publish notice of the matters prescribed by an order under <InternalLink Ref="section-79-3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/12/section/79/3" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/12/section/79/3/enacted">subsection (3)</InternalLink> in such manner as the President thinks appropriate in order to bring those matters to the attention of persons having an interest in them.</Text>
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<Text><InternalLink Ref="section-79-3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/12/section/79/3" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/12/section/79/3/enacted">Subsection (3)</InternalLink> is subject to section 2(2)(a) and (2A) of the Judiciary and Courts (Scotland) Act 2008.</Text>
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<Text>In addition to those prescribed by order under <InternalLink Ref="section-79-3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2025/12/section/79/3" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/12/section/79/3/enacted">subsection (3)</InternalLink>, the Sexual Offences Court must hold such further sittings as the Lord Advocate may require.</Text>
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