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Criminal Procedure (Intermediate Diets) (Scotland) Bill
This is the text of the Criminal Procedure (Intermediate Diets) (Scotland) Bill, as presented to the House of Commons on 1 April 1998 | |||||||||
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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM | |||||||||
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Criminal Procedure (Intermediate Diets) (Scotland) Bill | |||||||||
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B I L L TO Amend, with retrospective effect, the law in relation to intermediate diets in summary criminal proceedings in Scotland. BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- | |||||||||
Discretion to hold intermediate diets. | 1. - (1) In section 148 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (intermediate diets) (which consolidated section 337A of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975)- | ||||||||
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(2) The amendments made by subsection (1) above shall be deemed always to have had effect. | |||||||||
(3) Subsection (1) of the said section 337A shall be deemed always to have had effect as if enacted as follows- | |||||||||
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Short title and extent. | 2. - (1) This Act may be cited as the Criminal Procedure (Intermediate Diets)(Scotland) Act 1998. | ||||||||
(2) This Act extends to Scotland only. |
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