49U.K.In section 140 (witnesses)—
(a)subsection (5) (duty of Director of Public Prosecutions to obey the election court’s directions concerning the summoning and examination of witnesses) shall cease to have effect; and
(b)in subsection (7)—
(i)for the words “Subsections (5) and (6) above do” there shall be substituted the words “Subsection (6) above does”;
(ii)for the word “shall”, where it first occurs, there shall be substituted the words “may, if the Lord Advocate so decides, and shall, if the election court so requests”; and
(iii)the words from “and shall give” to the end of the subsection shall cease to have effect.