Circuit Courts and Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1925
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1925 c. 81 |
| Year | 1925 |
Circuit Courts and Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act, 1925.
(15 & 16 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 81.
An Act to consolidate and regulate the law regarding the circuits of the High Court of Justiciary and the holding of circuit courts, and to amend the law relating to criminal procedure in Scotland in certain respects.
[22nd December 1925]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Power to High Court of Justiciary to determine circuits, &c.
(1) It shah be lawful for the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary by Act of Adjournal from time to time as to them shall seem necessary after consultation with the Lord Advocate—
(a ) to alter the existing circuits of the High Court of Justiciary, to form new circuits, and to fix and determine the limits of each existing or new circuit, and the counties, portions of counties, cities or burghs, and districts which shall be included within the same;
(b ) to detach any portion of the district exclusively attached to the said High Court sitting at Edinburgh from such district and to include the same in any adjoining circuit or to detach any district from an adjoining circuit and to include the same in the district exclusively attached to the said High Court sitting at Edinburgh;
(c ) to fix and determine the number of circuit courts to be held and the places at which the same shall be held within each such circuit in each year, and to define the periods of the year at which such circuit courts shall be held and to alter the same as occasion shall require, and to appoint the particular dates of such courts and to appoint that any particular circuit courts in any circuit shall be for the trial of criminal cases only; and
(d ) to make such provision as may be necessary for the carrying out of the powers herein-before conferred, including, such modifications as may appear to be necessary in the existing statutory provisions for the preparing and keeping jury books and for making returns of and summoning jurors to serve on any assize for the trial of criminal cases.
(2) Every Act of Adjournal made in pursuance of this section shall be published in such manner as the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary shall direct, and shall take effect from the date thereof or from such other date as shah be specified therein.
(3) The Lords Commissioners of Justiciary shall hold such sittings for the trial of criminal cases from time to time as may be necessary on the requisition of the Lord Advocate. And every sitting of the High Court, whether under the existing law and practice or under this Act shall be a sitting of the High Court of Justiciary.
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