Alteration of time limits by High Court
23.—(1) All applications to the High Court for a direction to extend a time limit mentioned in section 20B(6) shall be made by way of petition.
(2) A petition under paragraph (1) shall be intimated to the other party and lodged together with a certificate of intimation with the sheriff clerk.
(3) The sheriff clerk, on the lodging of a petition, shall transmit it to the Clerk of Justiciary together with a certified copy of the relative petition and record of proceedings.
(4) A petition under paragraph (1) may be disposed of by a single judge of the High Court.
(5) The Clerk of Justiciary shall, as soon as possible after he receives the petition, fix a diet for the hearing and intimate the diet to the prosecutor and the accused.
(6) The Clerk of Justiciary, on the disposal of the petition by the High Court, shall transmit a certified copy of the deliverance of the High Court to the sheriff clerk.
(7) The sheriff clerk on receiving the certified copy of the deliverance shall attach it to the record of proceedings.