Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980

23Peremptory challenge of jurors

The number of peremptory challenges allowed to each accused, and to the prosecutor, as respects the jurors in any trial shall be reduced from five to three; and accordingly for subsection (1) of section 130 of the 1975 Act (challenges and objections to jurors) there shall be substituted the following subsection :

(1)In any trial each accused may challenge three jurors, as may the prosecutor, without giving any reason..