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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/custodial-sentences-and-weapons-scotland-act-2007/section-56",
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  "legislation": "asp/2007/17",
  "legislation_title": "Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/custodial-sentences-and-weapons-scotland-act-2007",
  "path": "section/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Fine defaulters and persons in contempt of court",
  "text": "(1) This Part applies in relation to the persons mentioned in subsection (2) as it applies in relation to custody-only prisoners.\n(2) Those persons are—\n(a) a person serving by virtue of section 219(1) of the 1995 Act a period of imprisonment or, as the case may be, a period of detention in a young offenders institution,\n(b) a person serving a period of imprisonment or, as the case may be, a period of detention in a young offenders institution for contempt of court.\n(3) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to—\n(a) a person on whom the court imposes before the coming into force of this Part—\n(i) a period of imprisonment in default of payment of a fine under paragraph (a) of section 219(1) of the 1995 Act, or\n(ii) imprisonment for failure to a pay a fine, or any part or instalment of a fine, under paragraph (b) of that section, or\n(b) a person found in contempt of court, where the conduct which is treated as contempt of court occurs (or first occurs) before the coming into force of this Part.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 power to modify conferred (24.9.2012) by Criminal Cases (Punishment and Review) (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 7), ss. 2(2), 5(2); S.S.I. 2012/249, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "asp/2010/13",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/17/section/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:50.645478+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."
}