Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1987

5In section 86 (selection of jurors)—

(a)for the words “The High Court may by Act of Adjournal specify” there shall be substituted the words “The Lord Justice General, whom failing the Lord Justice Clerk, may give directions as to”; and

(b)for the words “in that court to be held in Edinburgh” there shall be substituted the words “to be held in the High Court”,

and the section as amended shall be subsection (1); and there shall be added the following new subsection—

(2)Where a sitting of the High Court is to be held at a town in which the High Court does not usually sit, the jury summoned to try any case in such a sitting shall be summoned from the general jury roll of the sheriff court district in which the town is situated..