Section 36: Financial circumstances order: offences

Sentencing Act 2020 · 2020 c. 17View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 3: Procedure — CHAPTER 1: Information and reports

It is an offence for an individual to fail without reasonable excuse to comply with a financial circumstances order.

An individual who is guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

It is an offence for an individual, in furnishing any statement in pursuance of a financial circumstances order—

to make a statement which the individual knows to be false in a material particular,
recklessly to furnish a statement which is false in a material particular, or
knowingly to fail to disclose any material fact.

An individual who is guilty of an offence under subsection (3) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.

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