{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1980/schedule-3/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/62",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For subsection (1) of section 447 (draft stated case to be prepared), there shall be substituted the following subsection—\n“(1) Within three weeks of the final determination of proceedings in respect of which an application for a stated case is made under section 444 of this Act—\n(a) where the appeal is taken from the district court and the trial was presided over by a justice of the peace or justices of the peace, the justice, or justices, with such assistance from the clerk of court as may be required; or\n(b) in any other case the judge who presided at the trial,\nshall prepare a draft stated case, and the clerk of the court concerned shall forthwith issue the draft to the appellant or his solicitor and a duplicate thereof to the respondent or his solicitor. ”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/62/schedule/3/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:02.530874+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."
}