Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995

[F175CRefixing diets: non-suitable daysS

(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). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(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.]

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