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10 Crimes committed in different districts.S

(1)Where a person is alleged to have committed in more than one sheriff court district a crime or crimes to which subsection (2) below applies, he may be [F1prosecuted in] the sheriff court [F2or JP court] of such one of those districts as the Lord Advocate determines.

(2)This subsection applies to—

(a)a crime committed partly in one sheriff court district and partly in another;

(b)crimes connected with each other but committed in different sheriff court districts;

(c)crimes committed in different sheriff court districts in succession which, if they had been committed in one such district, could have been tried [F3together] .

(3)Where, in pursuance of subsection (1) above, a case is tried in the sheriff court [F4or JP court] of any sheriff court district, the procurator fiscal of that district shall have power to prosecute in that case even if the crime was in whole or in part committed in a different district, and the procurator fiscal shall have the like powers in relation to such case, whether before, during or after the trial, as he has in relation to a case arising out of a crime or crimes committed wholly within his own district.

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