# Act of Adjournal (Consolidation) 1988, Section 21: Postponement of trial diet by sheriff


(1) The sheriff shall not make an order under section 20B(5)(b) postponing the trial diet in respect of a case set down for trial in the High Court.
(2) Any order by a sheriff postponing the trial diet in a case not set down for trial in the High Court shall be—
(a) endorsed on the record copy indictment;
(b) authenticated by the signature of the sheriff;
(c) intimated—
(i) by the prosecutor to any co-accused by serving on them an intimation of postponement in the form set out in Form 14 of Schedule 1;
(ii) by the sheriff clerk to the governor of any institution in which any co-accused is detained.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/110/section/21 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988/section-21
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