PART VII Solemn Proceedings

F1Adjournment and alteration of diets

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F1

S. 75A and crossheading inserted (1.2.2005) by Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 5), ss. 15, 27(1); S.S.I. 2004/405, art. 2, Sch. 1 (subject to arts. 3-5)

75CF2Refixing 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.

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3

In F4subsection (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.