{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006/section-266",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006/section-266.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/52",
  "legislation_title": "Armed Forces Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-act-2006",
  "path": "section/266",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "266",
  "heading": "Financial statement orders",
  "text": "(1) Before sentencing a person who has been convicted of a service offence, a court may make a financial statement order; but this does not apply to the Summary Appeal Court.\n(2) A financial statement order is an order requiring the person to give to the court, within such period as may be specified in the order, such a statement of his assets and other financial circumstances as the court may require.\n(3) A person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a financial statement order commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(4) A person who in providing any statement in pursuance of a financial statement order—\n(a) makes a statement which he knows to be false in a material particular,\n(b) recklessly provides a statement which is false in a material particular, or\n(c) knowingly fails to disclose any material fact,\ncommits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 266(2) inserted (11.12.2013) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(2), Sch. 16 para. 38; S.I. 2013/2981, art. 2(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 266 in force at 28.3.2009 for specified purposes by S.I. 2009/812, art. 3(a)(b) (with transitional provisions in S.I. 2009/1059)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 266 in force at 31.10.2009 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/52/section/266",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:06:14.237699+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}