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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/513",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules) 1996",
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  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "19.6",
  "heading": "Abandoning appeals against conviction only",
  "text": "(1) This rule applies for the purpose of section 175(8) of the Act of 1995 (abandoning appeal against conviction and proceeding with appeal against sentence alone).\n(2) An application to abandon an appeal under section 175(8) of the Act of 1995 shall be made by minute in Form 19.6 and intimated by the appellant to the respondent.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the minute shall be lodged with the clerk of the court which imposed the sentence being appealed against.\n(4) Where, before the lodging of the minute, the stated case has been lodged with the Clerk of the Sheriff Appeal Court, the minute shall be lodged with the Clerk of the Sheriff Appeal Court who shall send a copy of the minute to the clerk of the court which imposed the sentence appealed against.\n(5) Where, before the lodging of the minute, copies of the stated case and relative proceedings have been lodged with the Clerk of the Sheriff Appeal Court, those copies shall be used for the purposes of the hearing of the appeal against sentence.\n(6) On the lodging of the minute, section 186(3) to (9) of the Act of 1995 (provisions relating to appeal against sentence only) shall apply to the stated case as they apply to a note of appeal.",
  "extent": "S",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 rule 19.6(4) substituted (22.9.2015) by Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules 1996 Amendment) (No. 4) (Sheriff Appeal Court) 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/245), paras. 1(2), 2(4) (with para. 6(1))"
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      "type": "F",
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      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 rule 19.6(5) substituted (22.9.2015) by Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules 1996 Amendment) (No. 4) (Sheriff Appeal Court) 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/245), paras. 1(2), 2(4) (with para. 6(1))"
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      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 rule 19.6 in force at 1.4.1996, see para. 1(1)"
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