[137CB Transfer of JP court proceedings outwith sheriffdom]
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (1995 c 46) | Legislation

[137CB  Transfer of JP court proceedings outwith sheriffdom]

[(1)     Subsection (2) applies where the clerk of a JP court informs the prosecutor that, because of exceptional circumstances which could not reasonably have been foreseen, it is not practicable for the JP court or any other JP court in the sheriffdom to proceed with some or all of the summary cases due to call at a diet.

(2)     The prosecutor shall as soon as practicable apply to the sheriff principal for an order for the transfer of the proceedings to a JP court in another sheriffdom (and for adjournment to a diet of that

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