{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/antisocial-behaviour-etc-scotland-act-2004/section-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/antisocial-behaviour-etc-scotland-act-2004/section-56.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2004/8",
  "legislation_title": "Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/antisocial-behaviour-etc-scotland-act-2004",
  "path": "section/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Litter: power of constables to issue fixed penalty notices",
  "text": "(1) Section 88 of the 1990 Act (fixed penalty notices for litter) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) the words “on any occasion” and “finds a person who he” shall be repealed;\n(b) for “has on that occasion” there shall be substituted “ that a person has ”;\n(c) the words from “an”, where it first occurs, to “authority”, where it secondly occurs, shall become paragraph (a) of that subsection; and\n(d) after “authority”, where it secondly occurs, there shall be inserted\n“; or\n(b) a constable has reason to believe that a person has committed an offence under that section,”.\n(3) After subsection (1) there shall be inserted—\n“(1A) Where a constable gives a notice under this section to a person, he shall, no later than 24 hours after the giving of the notice, send a copy of it to the litter authority in whose area the offence was committed.”.\n(4) After subsection (5) there shall be inserted—\n“(5A) A fixed penalty payable in pursuance of a notice under this section shall be payable to the litter authority in whose area the offence was committed.”.\n(5) In subsection (6)—\n(a) the words “to a litter authority” are repealed; and\n(b) for “the”, where it thirdly occurs, there shall be substituted “ a litter ”.\n(6) In subsection (7), after “amount”, where it first occurs, there shall be inserted “ (not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale) ”.\n(7) In subsection (8)(a)(ii), after “officer” there shall be inserted “ for the litter authority in whose area the offence was committed ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2004/8/section/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:35.498070+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}