150 Failure of accused to appear
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (1995 c 46) | Legislation

Failure of accused to appear

150  Failure of accused to appear

(1)     This section applies where the accused in a summary prosecution fails to appear at any diet of which he has received intimation, or to which he has been cited other than a diet which, by virtue of section 148(5) of this Act, he is not required to attend.

(2)     The court may adjourn the proceedings to another diet, and order the accused to attend at such diet, and appoint intimation of the diet to be made to him.

(3)     The court may grant warrant to apprehend the accused.

[(3A)     The grant, under subsection (3) above, at an intermediate diet [or a diet under section 148A of this Act] of a warrant to apprehend the accused has the effect of discharging the trial diet as respects that accused.

(3B)     Subsection

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