141 Manner of citation
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (1995 c 46) | Legislation

141  Manner of citation

[(1)     The citation of the accused or a witness in a summary prosecution to any ordinary sitting of the court or to any special diet fixed by the court or to any adjourned sitting or diet shall be effected by an officer of law or other person—

(a)     delivering the citation to him personally; or

(b)     leaving it for him—

(i)     at his dwelling-house or place of business with a resident or (as the case may be) employee there; or

(ii)     where he has no known dwelling-house or place of business, at any other place in which he may be resident at the time.]

(2)     Notwithstanding subsection (1) above, citation may also be effected—

(a)     where the accused or witness is the master of, or a seaman or person employed in a vessel, if the citation is left with a person on board the vessel and connected with it;

(b)     where the accused is [an organisation other than a body of trustees] [or a partnership prosecuted by virtue of section 1 of the Partnerships (Prosecution) (Scotland) Act 2013]—

(i)     if the citation is left at its ordinary place of business with a partner, director, secretary

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