PART VII

Solemn Proceedings

The indictment

Prosecution on indictment.
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1
All prosecutions for the public interest before the High Court or before the sheriff sitting with a jury shall proceed on indictment at the instance of Her Majesty’s Advocate.
2
The indictment may be in the forms—
a
set out in Schedule 2 to this Act; or
b
prescribed by Act of Adjournal,
or as nearly as may be in such form.
3
Indictments in proceedings before the High Court shall be signed by the Lord Advocate or one of his deputes.
4
Indictments in proceedings before the sheriff sitting with a jury shall be signed by the procurator fiscal, and the words “By Authority of Her Majesty’s Advocate” shall be prefixed to the signature of the procurator fiscal.
5
The principal record and service copies of indictments and all notices of citation, lists of witnesses, productions and jurors, and all other official documents required in a prosecution on indictment may be either written or printed or partly written and partly printed.
6
Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect as regards indictments under this Act.
Words in s. 64(1) substituted (13.12.2010) by Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 13), ss. 60(2), 206(1); S.S.I. 2010/413, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 5)