[137B Transfer of sheriff court summary proceedings outwith sheriffdom]
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (1995 c 46) | Legislation

[137B  Transfer of sheriff court summary proceedings outwith sheriffdom]

[[(1)     Where the sheriff clerk informs the prosecutor that, because of exceptional circumstances which could not reasonably have been foreseen, it is not practicable for the sheriff court or any other sheriff court in the sheriffdom to proceed with some or all of the summary cases due to call at a diet, the prosecutor shall as soon as practicable apply to the sheriff principal for an order for—

(a)     the transfer of the proceedings to a sheriff court in another sheriffdom; and

(b)     adjournment to a diet of that court.]

[(1A)     Where this

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