CHAPTER ISOLEMN PROCEDURE

PART IVAPPEAL PROCEDURE

Intimation of appeal against sentence of death85

The Clerk of Justiciary shall intimate an appeal against a conviction in respect of which sentence of death has been pronounced and the determination in any such appeal immediately on such intimation or determination, as the case may be, to—

a

the Secretary of State for Scotland; and

b

the governor of the prison in which the appellant is detained.