{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-36.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Financial circumstances order: offences",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence for an individual to fail without reasonable excuse to comply with a financial circumstances order.\n(2) An individual who is guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(3) It is an offence for an individual, in furnishing any statement in pursuance of a financial circumstances order—\n(a) to make a statement which the individual knows to be false in a material particular,\n(b) recklessly to furnish a statement which is false in a material particular, or\n(c) knowingly to fail to disclose any material fact.\n(4) An individual who is guilty of an offence under subsection (3) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.\n(5) Proceedings for an offence under subsection (3) may be commenced at any time which is both—\n(a) within 2 years from the date of the offence, and\n(b) within 6 months from its first discovery by the prosecutor.\nThis subsection has effect despite anything in section 127(1) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (limitation of time).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 36 in force at 1.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/17/section/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:00:57.370248+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."
}