Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1887

26 Notice for first diet

The notice for the first diet shall call on the person accused to appear in the Sheriff Court which is nearest to the prison in which such accused person is confined, whether such prison shall be within the jurisdiction of such Court or not, or if he has been liberated on bail in the Sheriff Court of the district in which his domicile for citation as set forth in any bail bond on which he is liberated is situated, or in any other case before any sheriff within whose jurisdiction the crime is alleged to have been committed in whole or in part, and where the person accused has absconded, the indictment may be served at his last known residence, and all citations at the Cross of Edinburgh, and the Pier and Shore of Leith, or at the head burgh of any shire, are hereby declared to be unnecessary, and any enactments requiring the same are hereby repealed.