SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 4 Miscellaneous Amendments of the Principal Act
Part III (legal proceedings)
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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.