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Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008

Section 70 Failure to ensure child’s compliance with order

142.This section provides that where an exclusion order, a restriction order or a quarantine order is made in relation to a person who is under 16 (a “child”), a parent of the child who has day-to-day care or control of the child commits an offence if the person fails, without reasonable excuse, to ensure that the child does not breach the order. Where there is no such parent, a person mentioned in subsection (5) commits an offence if the person fails, without reasonable excuse, to ensure that the child does not breach the order. A defence is available if the person can show that the person exercised all due diligence and took all reasonable steps to avoid committing the offence. The penalty for this offence is set out in section 120(2).

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