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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-criminal-procedure-rules-1996/schedule-2/rule-19.9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/513",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules) 1996",
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  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "19.9",
  "heading": "Applications for suspension of disqualification from driving in appeals",
  "text": "(1) Where a person who has been disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence appeals against that disqualification under section 176(1) of the Act of 1995 by stated case, any application to suspend the disqualification shall be made with the application to the court to state a case for the opinion of the Sheriff Appeal Court.\n(2) On an application being made under paragraph (1) to suspend a disqualification, the court shall grant or refuse to grant the application within seven days of it being made.\n(3) Where the court refuses to grant the application and the appellant applies to the Sheriff Appeal Court to suspend the disqualification, any such application shall be made by note in Form 19.9.\n(4) The note shall be lodged by the appellant or his solicitor with the Clerk of the Sheriff Appeal Court.\n(5) The appellant or his solicitor shall intimate the lodging of the note to the respondent and the clerk of the court which imposed the disqualification.\n(6) The clerk shall, on receiving such intimation, forthwith send to the Clerk of the Sheriff Appeal Court—\n(a) a certified copy of the complaint; and\n(b) a certified copy of the minute of proceedings.\n(7) The Sheriff Appeal Court may order such further intimation (including intimation to the Lord Advocate) as it thinks fit, and may dispose of the application in open court or in chambers after such hearing as it thinks fit.\n(8) On the Sheriff Appeal Court making an order on the note, the Clerk of the Sheriff Appeal Court shall send a certified copy of the order to the clerk of the court which imposed the disqualification.\n(9) Where the order suspends the disqualification, the Clerk of the Sheriff Appeal Court shall also send a certified copy of the order to the Secretary of State with such further information as the Secretary of State may require.\n(10) An order made by a single Appeal Sheriff under this rule shall not be subject to appeal or review.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 rule 19.9(1) 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(6)(a) (with para. 6(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 rule 19.9(3) 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(6)(a) (with para. 6(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 rule 19.9(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(6)(b) (with para. 6(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 rule 19.9(6) 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(6)(b) (with para. 6(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 rule 19.9(7) 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(6)(a) (with para. 6(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 rule 19.9(8) 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(6)(a) (with para. 6(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 rule 19.9(8) 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(6)(b) (with para. 6(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 rule 19.9(9) 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(6)(b) (with para. 6(1))"
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    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 rule 19.9(10) 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(6)(c) (with para. 6(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 rule 19.9 in force at 1.4.1996, see para. 1(1)"
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