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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioner-for-children-and-young-people-scotland-act-2003/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioner-for-children-and-young-people-scotland-act-2003/schedule-2/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2003/17",
  "legislation_title": "Commissioner for Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioner-for-children-and-young-people-scotland-act-2003",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any person to whom a notice under paragraph 1 has been duly given who, not being privileged under paragraph 2—\n(a) refuses or fails to attend before the Commissioner as required by the notice;\n(b) refuses or fails, when attending before the Commissioner as required by the notice, to answer any question concerning the subjects specified in the notice;\n(c) deliberately alters, suppresses, conceals or destroys any document which that person is required to produce by the notice; or\n(d) refuses or fails to produce any such document,\nis guilty of an offence.\n(2) It is a defence for a person charged with an offence under sub-paragraph (1)(a), (b) or (d) to prove that there was a reasonable excuse for the refusal or failure.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under this paragraph is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/17/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:42.714892+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."
}