http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2022/8/notes/division/3/3Explanatory Notes to Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Act 2022Scottish GovernmentenKing's Printer for Scotland2022-09-23 <Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2022/8" id="c00001" Class="ScottishAct" Year="2022" Number="0008">Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Act 2022</Citation> 8 10 August 2022 Schedule: Temporary Measures <CitationSubRef id="c00324" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2022/8/part/3" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="part-3">Part 3</CitationSubRef>: Failure to appear before court following police liberation 250 Paragraph 15(1) makes provision which enables the court to prevent the expiry of an undertaking given under section 25(2)(a) of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 when certain conditions are met. 251 Sub-paragraph (2) makes a consequential amendment to section 29(1)(a) of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 by introducing reference to new section 29A. 252 Sub-paragraph (3) inserts a new section 29A into the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016, which deals with expiry of undertakings. The new section 29A enables the court to modify the terms of an undertaking given under section 25(2)(a) of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 by changing the time at which the person who gave the undertaking is to appear at court where certain conditions are met, as set out in subsection (1). Where the court exercises this power, this has the effect of the undertaking and any conditions attached to it continuing until the newly specified time at which the person is to appear at court. 253 Those conditions are: the person has failed to appear at court as required by the terms of the undertaking, the court considers that the failure to appear is attributable to a reason related to coronavirus, and the court does not consider it appropriate to grant a warrant for the person’s arrest on account of the failure to appear. 254 Subsection (2) requires the procurator fiscal to give notice, as soon as reasonably practicable, to the person who gave the undertaking that the terms of the undertaking have been modified, where the court makes such an order under subsection (1). 255 Subsection (3) prescribes the manner in which notice under subsection (2) must be effected and provides that the same requirements as in section 141 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 apply. This includes delivering the notice personally or leaving it at the person’s home. 256 Subsection (4) provides that the references in subsection (1) to the terms of the undertaking include those modified by the procurator fiscal under section 27(1) of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016. 257 Subsection (5) provides that a reference in any enactment to the modification of the terms of an undertaking made by the procurator fiscal under section 27(1) is to be treated as including modification by the court under subsection (1).
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