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Section 83ZA Transfer of sheriff court solemn proceedings within sheriffdom: power of sheriff principalF1

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 proceedings on indictment 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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Textual amendments

F1

S. 83ZA inserted (25.3.2020) by Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 Amendment) (Miscellaneous) 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/93), paras. 1(2), 2(3)