[7 JP courts: jurisdiction and powers]
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (1995 c 46) | Legislation

[7  JP courts: jurisdiction and powers]

(1)     . . .

(2)     . . .

(3)     Except in so far as any enactment (including this Act or an enactment passed after this Act) otherwise provides, it shall be competent for a [JP court] [to—

(a)     try any common law or statutory offence which is triable summarily;

(b)     make such orders and grant such warrants as are appropriate to a court of summary jurisdiction;

(c)     do anything else (by way of procedure or otherwise) as is appropriate to such a court].

(4)     It shall be competent, whether or not the accused has been previously convicted of an offence inferring dishonest appropriation of property, for any of the following offences to be tried in the [JP court]—

(a)     theft or reset of theft;

(b)     falsehood, fraud or wilful imposition;

(c)     breach of trust or embezzlement,

where (in any such case) the amount concerned does not exceed level 4 on the standard scale.

(5)

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