8.1A. Where all the parties join in an application to extend, by a specific length of time, the period mentioned in subsection (1) of section 65 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland)(Act) 1995 (that is to say, the period of twelve months within which a trial is to be commenced) the court may proceed, under subsection (3) of that section, to hear the parties without the attendance of an accused who has signed a minute, lodged with the Clerk of Justiciary or as the case may be with the sheriff clerk, consenting to the extension applied for; but the court shall not, on so hearing the parties, grant an extension which exceeds the extension applied for.]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 2 rules 8.1A, 8.1B inserted (1.3.1999) by Act of Adjournal (Criminal Procedure Rules) (Amendment) 1999 (S.I. 1999/78), paras. 1(1), 2