PART VII Solemn Proceedings

The indictment

64 Prosecution on indictment.

1

All prosecutions for the public interest before the High Court or before the sheriff sitting with a jury shall proceed on indictment F1at the instance of Her Majesty’s Advocate.

2

The indictment may be in the forms—

a

set out in Schedule 2 to this Act; or

b

prescribed by Act of Adjournal,

or as nearly as may be in such form.

3

Indictments in proceedings before the High Court shall be signed by the Lord Advocate or one of his deputes.

4

Indictments in proceedings before the sheriff sitting with a jury shall be signed by the procurator fiscal, and the words “By Authority of Her Majesty’s Advocate” shall be prefixed to the signature of the procurator fiscal.

5

The principal record and service copies of indictments and all notices of citation, lists of witnesses, productions and jurors, and all other official documents required in a prosecution on indictment may be either written or printed or partly written and partly printed.

6

Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect as regards indictments under this Act.