{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-scotland-act-2004/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-scotland-act-2004/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2004/5",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-amendment-scotland-act-2004",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "First diet in sheriff court solemn proceedings: witnesses and bail",
  "text": "(1) Section 71 (first diet) of the 1995 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) After subsection (1B) insert—\n“(1C) At a first diet, the court—\n(a) shall ascertain which of the witnesses included in the list of witnesses are required by the prosecutor or the accused to attend the trial; and\n(b) shall, where the accused has been admitted to bail, review the conditions imposed on his bail and may—\n(i) after giving the parties an opportunity to be heard; and\n(ii) if it considers it appropriate to do so,\nfix bail on different conditions.”.\n(3) In subsection (2), for “and (1A)” substitute “ , (1A) and (1C) ”.\n(4) In subsection (3), after “(1A)” insert “ , (1C) ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 19 in force at 1.2.2005 by S.S.I. 2004/405, art. 2(1), sch. 1 (with arts. 3-5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2004/5/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:37.864763+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."
}