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Section 59 Competence of justice’s actings outwith jurisdiction

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

After section 9 of the 1995 Act there is inserted—

“Competence of justice’s actings outwith jurisdiction

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It is competent for a justice, even if not present within his jurisdiction, to sign any warrant, judgment, interlocutor or other document relating to proceedings within that jurisdiction provided that when he does so he is present within Scotland.”.