# Visitor Levy (Scotland) Act 2024, Section 51: Reasonable excuse for failure to make return

Extent: S

(1) If P satisfies the relevant local authority that there is a reasonable excuse for a failure to comply with section 26, liability to a penalty under sections 47 to 50 does not arise in relation to that failure.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)—
(a) an insufficiency of funds is not a reasonable excuse unless attributable to events outside P's control,
(b) where P relies on any other person to do anything, that is not a reasonable excuse unless P took reasonable care to avoid the failure, and
(c) where P had a reasonable excuse for the failure but the excuse has ceased, P is to be treated as having continued to have the excuse if the failure is remedied without unreasonable delay after the excuse ceased.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2024/8/section/51 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/visitor-levy-scotland-act-2024/section-51
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