{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/110",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Adjournal (Consolidation) 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Postponement of trial diet by High Court",
  "text": "(1) If the sheriff considers that it may be appropriate to make an order under section 20B(5)(b) postponing a trial diet in respect of a case set down for trial in the High Court, he shall report the circumstances (including the making of any direction under section 20B(5)(a)) to the Clerk of Justiciary.\n(2) The Clerk of Justiciary on receiving the sheriff’s report shall—\n(a) fix a diet to which the trial diet shall be treated as being postponed for the determination by a single judge of the High Court of the diet to which the trial shall be postponed;\n(b) intimate that diet to the prosecutor and the accused and to the governor of any institution in which any of the accused is detained.\n(3) The judge, in determining the diet to which the trial shall be postponed, shall have regard to the terms of the sheriff’s report.",
  "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/22",
    "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."
}