{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/antisocial-behaviour-etc-scotland-act-2004/section-61",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/antisocial-behaviour-etc-scotland-act-2004/section-61.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/61",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "61",
  "heading": "Non-compliance with graffiti removal notice",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies where a person on whom a graffiti removal notice is served (the “responsible person”) does not comply with it.\n(2) The local authority that served the notice or a person authorised by it may—\n(a) remove, clear or otherwise remedy the defacement; and\n(b) in so far as is reasonably necessary for that purpose, enter any land.\n(3) Where subsection (4) applies, a local authority may recover from the responsible person expenditure reasonably incurred by virtue of subsection (2).\n(4) This subsection applies where the local authority has served on the responsible person a notice setting out—\n(a) the amount of; and\n(b) details of,\nthe expenditure which it proposes to recover.\n(5) Subsections (2) to (5) of section 160 of the 1990 Act shall apply in relation to the service of a notice mentioned in subsection (4) as they apply to notices required or authorised to be served under that Act.",
  "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/61",
    "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."
}