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High Court of Justiciary (Scotland) Act 1892

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 3 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1892 c. 21
Year1892


High Court of Justiciary (Scotland) Act, 1892

(55 & 56 Vict.) CHAPTER 21.

An Act to regulate the sittings of the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland.

[20th June 1892]

Whereas it is expedient to remove doubts which have arisen as to the power of the High Court of Justiciary sitting in Edinburgh to sit in more than one court at one time for the despatch of public business:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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:

S-1 Sittings may be held in more than one court.

1 Sittings may be held in more than one court.

1. Whenever it is expedient for the greater despatch of business it shall be lawful for the High Court of Justiciary to hold sittings in Edinburgh in more than one court at one and the same time, any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding.

S-2 Short title.

2 Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as theHigh Court of Justiciary (Scotland) Act, 1892.

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