Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 36)

Part II Promotion of Children’s Welfare by Local Authorities and by Children’s Hearings etc.

Chapter 4 Parental Responsibilities Orders, etc.

Parental responsibilities orders

89 Offences in relation to parental responsibilities orders

Any person who, knowingly and without lawful authority or reasonable excuse—

(a) fails to comply with a notice under section 87(3) of this Act;

(b) harbours or conceals a child—

(i) as respects whom a parental responsibilities order has been made; and

(ii) who has run away, or been taken away or whose return is required by such a notice; or

(c) induces, assists or incites a child as respects whom any such order has been made to run away, or stay away, from a place where he is looked after or who takes away such a child from that place,

shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.