{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/110",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Adjournal (Consolidation) 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Rectification of errors in transcript",
  "text": "(1) A notice served under section 20B(4)(a) shall be in the form set out in Form 11 of Schedule 1.\n(2) The prosecutor shall, on serving or on receiving such a notice, immediately lodge with the sheriff clerk the transcript, signed and certifed by the shorthand writer under section 20B(2).\n(3) An application to the sheriff for an error or incompleteness to be rectified under section 20B(4)(b) shall be in the form set out in Form 12 of Schedule 1.\n(4) The application shall be lodged with the sheriff clerk together with—\n(a) a copy of the notice served under section 20B(4)(a), and\n(b) an execution of service of that notice.\n(5) When the person upon whom notice is served under section 20B(4)(a) agrees with the opinion to which that notice relates, he may intimate his agreement to the person serving notice in the form set out in Form 13 of Schedule 1, and shall, at the same time as so intimating his agreement, send a copy to the sheriff clerk.\n(6) On the lodging of an application under paragraph (3), the sheriff unless he dispenses with a hearing, shall by deliverance endorsed on the application—\n(a) fix a date for a hearing;\n(b) order intimation of the date of the hearing to be made by the sheriff clerk to the prosecutor and to the accused person to whose examination the transcript relates.\n(7) If the sheriff authorises rectification of the transcript, he shall by deliverance endorsed on the application and signed by him specify the rectification authorised.\n(8) The sheriff clerk shall give effect to any authorised rectification by amending the signed and certified transcript in accordance with the terms of the sheriff’s deliverance and initialling any amendment.\n(9) On making any such amendment, the sheriff clerk shall—\n(a) attach to the rectified transcript a copy of the deliverance certified by him;\n(b) return it to the prosecutor;\n(c) retain the application for rectification and the deliverance made in respect of the application;\n(d) attach them to the record of proceedings mentioned in rule 15.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/110/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:12:46.518890+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}