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Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004

Section 107 – Failure to comply with order

239.Section 107 provides that failure without reasonable excuse to comply with a parenting order is an offence and that the penalty for that offence shall be a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale (currently £1,000). This section should be read in conjunction with the amendments to the Criminal Procedure (Scotland ) Act 1995 in schedule 4 which provide that if a fine imposed under this section is not paid a court shall impose a supervised attendance order. Only where that supervised attendance order is breached will the court have its normal powers of sentence – including imprisonment – available to it.

240.Subsection (3) requires the court to take into account the welfare of any child of the parent subject to the order in determining what sentence to impose for failure to comply with a parenting order.

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