{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995/section-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995/section-34.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/46",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995",
  "path": "section/34",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Petition for warrant.",
  "text": "(1) A petition for warrant to arrest and commit a person suspected of or charged with crime may be in the forms—\n(a) set out in Schedule 2 to this Act; or\n(b) prescribed by Act of Adjournal,\nor as nearly as may be in such form; and Schedule 3 to this Act shall apply to any such petition as it applies to the indictment.\n(2) If on the application of the procurator fiscal, a sheriff is satisfied that there is reasonable ground for suspecting that an offence has been or is being committed by a body corporate, the sheriff shall have the like power to grant warrant for the citation of witnesses and the production of documents and articles as he would have if a petition charging an individual with the commission of the offence were presented to him.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 34(2) applied (26.12.2023) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), ss. 198(1)(2), 219(3)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 34(2) applied (26.10.2023 for specified purposes, 1.9.2025 in so far as not already in force) by Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (c. 56), ss. 203(1)(2), 219(1)(2)(b); S.I. 2025/349, reg. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 34(2) applied (7.4.2026) by Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), ss. 145(3)(b)(ii), 159(3) (with s. 147, Sch. 11); S.I. 2026/323, reg. 4(1)(45)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 34(2) applied (7.4.2026) by Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), ss. 146(4)(b)(ii), 159(3) (with s. 147, Sch. 11); S.I. 2026/323, reg. 4(1)(46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 34(2) applied (29.6.2026) by Crime and Policing Act 2026 (c. 20), ss. 250(5), 255(3)(k)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/46/section/34",
    "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."
}