Act of Adjournal (Consolidation) 1988

Intimation of appeal against sentence of death

85.  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.