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Rule 15.5 Intimation of appeal against sentence of deathI1

Scotland

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The Clerk of Justiciary shall intimate an appeal against a conviction in respect of which sentence of death has been pronounced, and the determination in any such appeal, immediately on such intimation or determination, as the case may be, to—

(a)

the Secretary of State for Scotland; and

(b)

the governor of the prison in which the appellant is detained.

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Commencement

I1

Sch. 2 rule 15.5 in force at 1.4.1996, see para. 1(1)