{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-work-scotland-act-1968/section-71",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-work-scotland-act-1968/section-71.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/49",
  "legislation_title": "Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-work-scotland-act-1968",
  "path": "section/71",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Harbouring.",
  "text": "Any person who knowingly—\n(a) assists or induces or persistently attempts to induce a child so to act as to be liable to be brought back in pursuance of either of the two last foregoing sections, or\n(b) harbours or conceals a child so liable or prevents him from returning to a place or person mentioned in either of those sections,\nshall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Children Act 1975 (c. 72, SIF 49:9, 10), Sch. 3 para. 60 and by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c.48, SIF 39:1), s. 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G (as inserted by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 54)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 71 restricted (N.I.) (4.11.1996) by S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2), art. 70(6)(7)(c); S.R. 1996/297, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 71 excluded (E.W.) (14.10 1991) by Children Act 1989 (c. 41, SIF 20), ss. 51(5)(6)(7)(b), 108(2); S.I.1991/828, art.3(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/49/section/71",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:53:29.441282+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."
}