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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Act of Adjournal)

This Act of Adjournal amends the Criminal Procedure Rules 1996 as follows:

(a)

paragraph 2(2) inserts a new rule 1.4 under which the Lord Justice General may give a direction as respects the arrangements for, or in connection with, the appearance in court of the Advocate General for Scotland;

(b)

paragraph 2(3) inserts a new rule 3.5A which provides that any register kept by the High Court may be either in documentary or electronic form; and

(c)

paragraphs 2(4) and (5) revoke rule 20.1 (form of sentence of death) and the form associated with that rule (form 20.1).