292 Mode of trial of certain offences
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (1995 c 46) | Legislation

Mode of trial

292  Mode of trial of certain offences

(1)     Subject to subsection (6) below, the offences mentioned (and broadly described) in Schedule 10 to this Act shall be triable only summarily.

(2)     An offence created by statute shall be triable only summarily if—

(a)     the enactment creating the offence or any other enactment expressly so provides (in whatever words); or

(b)     subject to subsections (4) and (5)(a) below, the offence was created by an Act passed

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