Part IV Miscellaneous Reforms

Sheriff court jurisdiction

I160 Criminal jurisdiction of sheriff court.

The following subsection shall be inserted at the end of each of sections 3 and 288 of the M1Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 to form subsection (4) and subsection (5) respectively of these sections—

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Where an offence is alleged to have been committed in one district in a sheriffdom, it shall be competent to try that offence in a sheriff court in any other district in that sheriffdom.