{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-proceedings-etc-reform-scotland-act-2007/section-18",
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  "legislation": "asp/2007/6",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-proceedings-etc-reform-scotland-act-2007",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Intermediate diets",
  "text": "In section 148 (intermediate diet) of the 1995 Act—\n(a) after paragraph (b) of subsection (1) there is inserted—\n“(ba) how many witnesses are required by—\n(i) the prosecutor;\n(ii) the accused,\nto attend the trial;”,\n(b) in paragraph (a) of subsection (2), for the words from the beginning to “so,” there is substituted “ may ”,\n(c) in subsection (3), for the words “Subject to subsection (2) above, the” there is substituted “ The ”,\n(d) for subsection (4) there is substituted—\n“(4) At an intermediate diet, the court shall make such enquiry of the parties as is reasonably required for the purposes of subsections (1) and (3A) above.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/6/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:00.103957+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."
}