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(1)In any proceedings on indictment, the court may, on the application of any of the parties, issue a warrant for the apprehension of a witness if subsection (2) or (3) below applies in relation to the witness.
(2)This subsection applies if the witness, having been duly cited to any diet in the proceedings, deliberately and obstructively fails to appear at the diet.
(3)This subsection applies if the court is satisfied by evidence on oath that the witness is being deliberately obstructive and is not likely to attend to give evidence at any diet in the proceedings without being compelled to do so.
(4)For the purposes of subsection (2) above, a witness who, having been duly cited to any diet, fails to appear at the diet is to be presumed, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, to have so failed deliberately and obstructively.
(5)An application under subsection (1) above—
(a)may be made orally or in writing;
(b)if made in writing—
(i)shall be in such form as may be prescribed by Act of Adjournal, or as nearly as may be in such form; and
(ii)may be disposed of in court or in chambers after such inquiry or hearing (if any) as the court considers appropriate.
(6)A warrant issued under this section shall be in such form as may be prescribed by Act of Adjournal or as nearly as may be in such form.
(7)A warrant issued under this section in the form mentioned in subsection (6) above shall imply warrant to officers of law—
(a)to search for and apprehend the witness in respect of whom it is issued;
(b)to bring the witness before the court;
(c)in the meantime, to detain the witness in a police station, police cell or other convenient place; and
(d)so far as is necessary for the execution of the warrant, to break open shut and lockfast places.
(8)It shall not be competent, in any proceedings on indictment, for a court to issue a warrant for the apprehension of a witness otherwise than in accordance with this section.
(9)A person apprehended under a warrant issued under this section shall wherever practicable be brought before the court not later than in the course of the first day on which—
(a)in the case of a warrant issued by a single judge of the High Court, that Court;
(b)in any other case, the court,
is sitting after he is taken into custody.
(10)In this section and section 90B, “the court” means F2. . .
(a)where the witness is to give evidence in proceedings in the High Court, a single judge of that Court; or
(b)where the witness is to give evidence in proceedings on indictment in the sheriff court, any sheriff court with jurisdiction in relation to the proceedings.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 90A-90E inserted (1.2.2005 for specified purposes and otherwise prosp.) by Criminal Procedure (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2004 (asp 5), ss. 11, 27(1); S.S.I. 2004/405, art. 2, Sch. 1 (with transitional provision in arts. 3-5)
F2Words in s. 90A(10) repealed (10.12.2007) by Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6), ss. 80, 84, Sch. para. 15(1); S.S.I. 2007/479, art. 3(1), Sch. (as amended by S.S. I. 2007/527)
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