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Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1963

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35Amendment of s. 26 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1887

For section 26 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1887 (which relates to the giving of notice to an accused of the first diet in solemn procedure) there shall be substituted the following section:—

26Notice for first diet.

(1)Where a person is charged on indictment, the notice for the first diet of compearance shall call on that person to appear in the sheriff court before which he appeared on judicial examination unless the Lord Advocate otherwise directs.

(2)The Lord Advocate may make a direction that the first diet of compearance may be taken at a sheriff court other than the sheriff court where the accused appeared on judicial examination either in respect of a class of cases or in respect of particular cases.

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