Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/46/part/IX/crossheading/general/2008-03-10
Timestamp: 2019-09-15 13:28:32
Document Index: 103604033

Matched Legal Cases: ['art. 3', 'art. 6', 'art. 3', 'art. 2', 'art. 3', 'art. 3', 'art. 3', 'art. 3', 'art. 3', 'art. 3', 'art. 3', 'art. 2']

Version Superseded: 27/02/2011
Point in time view as at 10/03/2008. This version of this cross heading contains provisions that are not valid for this point in time.
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, Cross Heading: General is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 15 September 2019. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
[F5136BTime limits where fixed penalty offer etc. madeS
F5 S. 136B inserted (10.3.2008) by Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6) , ss. 54 , 84 ; S.S.I. 2008/42 , art. 3 , Sch. (subject to art. 6 )
[F6137ZARefixing dietsS
F6 S. 137ZA inserted (10.12.2007) by Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6), ss. 39(2), 84; S.S.I. 2007/479, art. 3(1), Sch. (as amended by S.S. I. 2007/527)
[F7137ATransfer of sheriff court summary proceedings within sheriffdomS
(1)Where [F8this subsection applies,] the prosecutor may apply to the sheriff for an order for the transfer of the proceedings to a sheriff court in any other district in that sheriffdom and for adjournment to a diet of that court.
[F9(1A)Subsection (1) above applies—
F7 Ss. 137A, 137B inserted (27.6.2003) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7) , ss. 58(2) , 89 ; S.S.I. 2003/288 , art. 2 , Sch.
F8 Words in s. 137A(1) substituted (10.3.2008) by Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6) , ss. 22(1)(a) , 84 ; S.S.I. 2008/42 , art. 3 , Sch. (subject to arts. 4 - 6)
F9 S. 137A(1A) inserted (10.3.2008) by Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6) , ss. 22(1)(b) , 84 ; S.S.I. 2008/42 , art. 3 , Sch. (subject to arts. 4 - 6)
[F10(1)Where the sheriff clerk informs the prosecutor that, because of exceptional circumstances which could not reasonably have been foreseen, it is not practicable for the sheriff court or any other sheriff court in the sheriffdom to proceed with some or all of the summary cases due to call at a diet, the prosecutor shall as soon as practicable apply to the sheriff principal for an order for—
[F11(1A)Where this subsection applies, the prosecutor may apply to the sheriff for an order for—
[F12(2A)On an application under subsection (1A) or (1C) above, the sheriff is to make the order sought if—
[F13(4)On the application of the prosecutor, a sheriff who has made an order under subsection (2A) above may, if a sheriff of the other sheriffdom mentioned in paragraph (b) of that subsection consents—
F10 S. 137B(1) substituted (10.3.2008) by Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6) , ss. 22(2)(a) , 84 ; S.S.I. 2008/42 , art. 3 , Sch.
F11 S. 137B(1A)-(1C) inserted (10.3.2008) by Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6) , ss. 22(2)(b) , 84 ; S.S.I. 2008/42 , art. 3 , Sch.
F12 S. 137B(2A) inserted (10.3.2008) by Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6) , ss. 22(2)(c) , 84 ; S.S.I. 2008/42 , art. 3 , Sch.
F13 S. 137B(4) added (10.3.2008) by Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6) , ss. 22(2)(d) , 84 ; S.S.I. 2008/42 , art. 3 , Sch.
[F14137CCustody cases: initiating proceedings outwith sheriffdomS
F14 Ss. 137C, 137D inserted (10.3.2008) by Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6) , ss. 22(3) , 84 ; S.S.I. 2008/42 , art. 3 , Sch. (subject to arts. 4 - 6)
[F15137CATransfer of JP court proceedings within sheriffdomS
(4) In this section and sections 137CB and 137CC, “ justice ” does not include the sheriff. ]
F15 Ss. 137CA-137CC inserted (28.3.2011) by Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 13) , ss. 61 , 206(1) ; S.S.I. 2011/178 , art. 2 , sch.
[F14[F16137CBTransfer of JP court proceedings outwith sheriffdomS
F16Ss. 137CA-137CC inserted (prosp.) by Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 13), ss. 61, 206(1)