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The Indictment The IndictmentF1

Scotland

  1. 41Indictment forms.
  2. 42Resignation, death or demission of office of Lord Advocate.
  3. 43Naming of accused.
  4. 44Nomen juris unnecessary.
  5. 45Case of two or more persons charged.
  6. 46“Guilty, actor or art and part” unnecessary.
  7. 47“All which or part” implied.
  8. 48Qualifying words to be implied.
  9. 48ACommon law and statutory offences in same indictment.
  10. 48BDescription of offence in words of statute or order.
  11. 49Quotation of statutes unnecessary.
  12. 50Latitude as to time and place.
  13. 51Latitude as to quantities, persons, things or modes.
  14. 52Description of buildings, goods, money or other property.
  15. 53Description of persons, goods, etc.
  16. 54“Money” to include coin, bank notes and post office orders.
  17. 55Setting forth documents unnecessary.
  18. 56Declarations, etc., not averred.
  19. 57Indictments, etc., written or printed or partly so.
  20. 58Authentication of alterations to indictment, etc.
  21. 59Reset.
  22. 60Robbery, etc. to include reset, and theft to include breach of trust, etc.
  23. 60AProceedings under the Merchant Shipping Acts.
  24. 61Procedure where more than one crime charged.
  25. 62. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  26. 63Attempt at crime.
  27. 64Statutory offences which are offences at common law.
  28. 65Superfluous particulars as to identity.
  29. 66Proof of exceptions, qualifications, etc.
  30. 67Offence committed in special capacity.

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Textual amendments

F1

Act repealed (S.) (1.4.1996) by Criminal Procedure (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 40), s. 6(1), Sch. 5 (with ss. 4, 6(2), Sch. 3 paras. 3, 16, Sch. 6)