Sentencing Act 2020

36 Financial circumstances order: offences

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

(2) 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.

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

(a) to make a statement which the individual knows to be false in a material particular,

(b) recklessly to furnish a statement which is false in a material particular, or

(c) knowingly to fail to disclose any material fact.

(4) 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.

(5) Proceedings for an offence under subsection (3) may be commenced at any time which is both—

(a) within 2 years from the date of the offence, and

(b) within 6 months from its first discovery by the prosecutor.

This subsection has effect despite anything in section 127(1) of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (limitation of time).