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.