{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fatal-accidents-and-sudden-deaths-inquiry-scotland-act-1906/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fatal-accidents-and-sudden-deaths-inquiry-scotland-act-1906/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/6/35",
  "legislation_title": "Fatal Accidents and Sudden Deaths Inquiry (Scotland) Act 1906",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fatal-accidents-and-sudden-deaths-inquiry-scotland-act-1906",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Repeal of 58 & 59 Vict. G.36 s.4, s.s.10.",
  "text": "Subsection ten of section four of the Fatal Accidents Inquiry (Scotland) Act, 1895, is hereby repealed, and in lieu thereof be it enacted as follows, namely :—\nThe jury shall be cited by the sheriff clerk from the sheriff court jury book in the manner provided by statute for the citation of jurors in civil cases in Scotland, and the existing statutory provisions relative to fines for non-attendance of jurors and to the swearing of jurors shall apply to inquiries under this Act; but no person shall be summoned to attend to serve as a juror in any inquiry held under this Act who resides beyond such distances from the court-house or other building at which the inquiry is held as may from time to time be fixed by the several sheriffs of the several counties, with the approbation of the Secretary for Scotland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/6/35/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:52.939116+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."
}