SCHEDULES

first schedule ORDINARY CAUSE RULES 1993

Special provisions in relation to particular causes

F1CHAPTER 45VULNERABLE WITNESSES (SCOTLAND) ACT 2004

Taking of evidence by commissioner

45.11.

(1)

An interlocutor authorising the special measure of taking evidence by a commissioner shall be sufficient authority for the citing the witness to appear before the commissioner.

(2)

At the commission the commissioner shall–

(a)

administer the oath de fideli administratione to any clerk appointed for the commission; and

(b)

administer to the witness the oath in Form G14, or where the witness elects to affirm, the affirmation in Form G15.

(3)

The commission shall proceed without interrogatories unless, on cause shown, the sheriff otherwise directs.