# Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, Section 137AA: Transfer of sheriff court summary proceedings within sheriffdom: power of sheriff principal


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—
(a) the transfer of the proceedings to a sheriff court in any other district in that sheriffdom; and
(b) adjournment to a diet of that court.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/46/section/137AA (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995/section-137AA
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