{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995/section-137ZB",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995/section-137ZB.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/46",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995",
  "path": "section/137ZB",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "137ZB",
  "heading": "Refixing diets: non-suitable days",
  "text": "(1) Where in a summary prosecution any diet has been fixed for a day which is no longer suitable to the court it may, of its own accord, at any time before that diet—\n(a) discharge the diet; and\n(b) fix a new diet for a date earlier or later than that for which the discharged diet was fixed.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 137ZB inserted (30.1.2012) by Act of Adjournal (Amendment of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995) (Refixing diets) 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/430), ss. 1(2), 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 137ZB(2) repealed (25.3.2020) by Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 Amendment) (Miscellaneous) 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/93), paras. 1(2), 2(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/46/section/137ZB",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:43:46.035735+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."
}