{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995/section-245F",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995/section-245F.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/46",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995",
  "path": "section/245F",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "245F",
  "heading": "Breach of restriction of liberty order.",
  "text": "(1) If at any time when a restriction of liberty order is in force it appears\n(a) except in a case to which paragraph (b) below applies, to the court which made the order or\n(b) where a copy of the order was, under section 245A(5)(a)(ii) or 245E(7)(a) of this Act, sent to the clerk of a different court, to that different court (or, if there has been more than one such sending, the different court to which such a copy has most recently been so sent),\nthat the offender has failed to comply with any of the requirements of the order the court in question may issue a citation requiring the offender to appear before it at such time as may be specified in the citation or, if it appears to that court to be appropriate, it may issue a warrant for the arrest of the offender.\n(1A) The unified citation provisions apply in relation to a citation under this section as they apply in relation to a citation under section 216(3)(a) of this Act.\n(2) If it is proved to the satisfaction of that court that the offender has failed without reasonable excuse to comply with any of the requirements of the order it may by order—\n(a) without prejudice to the continuance in force of the order, impose a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale;\n(b) vary the restriction of liberty order; or\n(c) revoke that order.\n(2A) For the purposes of subsection (2) above, evidence of one witness shall be sufficient evidence.\n(3) A fine imposed under this section in respect of a failure to comply with the requirements of a restriction of liberty order shall be deemed for the purposes of any enactment to be a sum adjudged to be paid by or in respect of a conviction or a penalty imposed on a person summarily convicted.\n(4) Where a court varies a restriction of liberty order under subsection (2) above it may do so in any of the ways mentioned in paragraph (a) of section 245E(2) of this Act.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 245A-245I and preceding cross-heading inserted (20.10.1997 for specified purposes and 1.7.1998 otherwise) by 1997 c. 48, s. 5; S.I. 1997/2323, arts. 3, 5(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 245F(1) renumbered (27.6.2003) as s. 245F(1)(a) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. 43(1)(a)(i), 89; S.S.I. 2003/288, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 245F(1) inserted (27.6.2003) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. 43(4)(a)(i), 89; S.S.I. 2003/288, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 245F(1) inserted (27.6.2003) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. 43(4)(a)(ii), 89; S.S.I. 2003/288, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 245F(1)(b) inserted (27.6.2003) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. 43(4)(a)(ii), 89; S.S.I. 2003/288, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 245F(1) inserted (27.6.2003) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. 43(4)(a)(iii), 89; S.S.I. 2003/288, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 245F(1) substituted (27.6.2003) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. 43(4)(a)(iv), 89; S.S.I. 2003/288, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 245F(1) substituted (27.6.2003) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. 43(4)(a)(v), 89; S.S.I. 2003/288, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "S. 245F(1A) inserted (27.10.2003) by virtue of Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. 60(1)(h), 89; S.S.I. 2003/475, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 245F(2) substituted (27.6.2003) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. 43(4)(b)(i), 89; S.S.I. 2003/288, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in s. 245F(2) substituted (27.6.2003) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. 43(4)(b)(ii), 89; S.S.I. 2003/288, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "S. 245F(2A) inserted (10.12.2007) by Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 6), ss. 58, 84; S.S.I. 2007/479, art. 3(1), Sch. (subject to art. 13) (as amended by S.S.I. 2007/527)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in s. 245F(4) substituted (27.6.2003) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. 43(4)(c), 89; S.S.I. 2003/288, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/46/section/245F",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:43:46.035735+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."
}