PART VII Solemn Proceedings
Adjournment and alteration of diets
F175CRefixing diets: non-suitable days
(1)
Where in any proceedings on indictment any diet has been fixed for a day which is no longer suitable to the court, it may, of its own accord, at any time before that diet—
(a)
discharge the diet; and
(b)
fix a new diet for a date earlier or later than that for which the discharged diet was fixed.
F2(2)
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(3)
In F3subsection (1), “the court” means—
(a)
in the case of proceedings in the High Court, a single judge of that Court;
(b)
in the case of proceedings in the sheriff court, that court.