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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995-amendment-miscellaneous-2020/section-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2020/93",
  "legislation_title": "Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 Amendment) (Miscellaneous) 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/act-of-adjournal-criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995-amendment-miscellaneous-2020",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995",
  "text": "(1) The Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 75C (refixing diets: non-suitable days)—\n(a) subsection (2) is repealed;\n(b) in subsection (3), for “subsections (1) and (2)” substitute “subsection (1)”.\n(3) After section 83 (transfer of sheriff court solemn proceedings) insert—\n“Transfer of sheriff court solemn proceedings within sheriffdom: power of sheriff principal\n83ZA. Where, because of exceptional circumstances which could not reasonably have been foreseen, it is not practicable for a sheriff court in a sheriffdom to proceed with some or all of the proceedings on indictment due to call at a diet, the sheriff principal may, of the sheriff principal’s own accord, make an order for—\n(a) the transfer of the proceedings to a sheriff court in any other district in that sheriffdom; and\n(b) adjournment to a diet of that court.”.\n(4) After section 137A (transfer of sheriff court summary proceedings within sheriffdom) insert—\n“Transfer of sheriff court summary proceedings within sheriffdom: power of sheriff principal\n137AA. Where, because of exceptional circumstances which could not reasonably have been foreseen, it is not practicable for a sheriff court in a sheriffdom to proceed with some or all of the summary cases due to call at a diet, the sheriff principal may, of the sheriff principal’s own accord, make an order for—\n(a) the transfer of the proceedings to a sheriff court in any other district in that sheriffdom; and\n(b) adjournment to a diet of that court.”.\n(5) Subsection (2) of section 137ZB (refixing diets: non-suitable days) is repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 75C was inserted by S.S.I. 2011/430."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 83 was last amended by the Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 5)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 137A was inserted by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7) and amended by the Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 137ZB was inserted by S.S.I. 2011/430."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2020/93/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:03:03.098737+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."
}