{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988/section-96",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988/section-96.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/110",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Adjournal (Consolidation) 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-consolidation-1988",
  "path": "section/96",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "96",
  "heading": "Record of proceedings",
  "text": "(1) Where that person appears before the sheriff to have his precognition taken on oath, the proceedings shall be recorded in shorthand by an official shorthand writer instructed by the accused or his solicitor.\n(2) The shorthand writer shall extend his shorthand notes recording the proceedings, sign the transcript, and lodge it with the sheriff clerk.\n(3) On the transcript being lodged, the sheriff clerk shall—\n(a) send a copy to the solicitor for the accused, or if he is not represented, to the accused;\n(b) fix a diet for the person whose precognition has been taken on oath to attend before the sheriff to sign the precognition.",
  "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/96",
    "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."
}