{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-protection-scotland-act-2021/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-abuse-protection-scotland-act-2021/section-7.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/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Offence of breaching notice",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if the person without reasonable excuse—\n(a) fails to do something which the person is required to do by a domestic abuse protection notice, or\n(b) does anything which the person is prohibited from doing by such a notice.\n(2) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale (or both).",
  "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/7",
    "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."
}