{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-protection-scotland-act-2021/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-protection-scotland-act-2021/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2021/16",
  "legislation_title": "Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-protection-scotland-act-2021",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Relationship of notice or order with order regulating contact or residence",
  "text": "For the avoidance of doubt—\n(a) nothing in a court order which regulates contact with, or the residence of, a child limits the requirements or prohibitions that may be imposed by a notice or order under this Part, and\n(b) accordingly, it is not a defence to a charge of committing an offence under section 7(1) or 17(1) that person A was doing something which person A was entitled to do by virtue of such a court order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/16/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:29.724850+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."
}