{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-justice-scotland-act-2016-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2017/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-justice-scotland-act-2016-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2017/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2017/9780111035627",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-criminal-justice-scotland-act-2016-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transitional provision - section 81(5)(a)(ii) of the 1995 Act",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where an accused is given notice under section 81(5)(a)(ii) of the 1995 Act, before 31st July 2017, to appear and answer an indictment at both a first diet and a trial diet in the sheriff court.\n(2) Where this regulation applies—\n(a) the court need not appoint a trial diet under section 71B(1) of the 1995 Act; but\n(b) if the court does, the trial diet of which the accused was given notice under section 81(5) is discharged.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 71B was inserted by the 2016 Act, section 81(4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2017/9780111035627/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:33:48.952107+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."
}