Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975

Section 99.

SCHEDULE 2 Remission of Fines on Jurors

1 Applications for remission of fines imposed at any sitting of the High Court received after the termination of such sitting shall be laid before any Lord Commissioner of Justiciary as soon as possible after receipt thereof.

2 No fees or dues of court or expenses shall be exigible in respect of any such application.

3 No such fine shall be reported by the Clerk of Justiciary or circuit clerk to the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer until the expiry of not less than three weeks from the conclusion of the last diet of the sitting of the High Court at which the fine has been imposed: and if, prior to that time, an application for remission of the fine shall have been received, no report shall be made to the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer until the application has been disposed of, and then only if the application be dismissed or refused as aftermentioned.

4 In case the judge dealing with any such application shall be of opinion that, having regard to the circumstances disclosed, the said application has not been brought within a reasonable time, he may dismiss the application. Otherwise he shall deal with the application on its merits and may grant the same and remit the fine or refuse the same, according as he is, or is not, satisfied, after such further inquiry, if any, as he may think proper, that the reasons adduced are vouched to his satisfaction and afford sufficient excuse for non-attendance.

5 A record of all such applications shall be entered in short form in the High Court minute books and the application with relative order thereon—but not containing the medical certificate or particulars attached thereto—shall be appended to the books of adjournal.

6 Medical certificates and reasons for non-attendance as jurors either (a) submitted after citation or (b) lodged with the said application, may be destroyed on the expiry of one month after the date of the sitting of the court to which they refer.