SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 4Miscellaneous 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