Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010

Initial notification requirements

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2(1)It is an offence for a person to fail to comply with a requirement imposed on the person by paragraph 1.

(2)A person who commits an offence under sub-paragraph (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

(3)It is a defence for a person prosecuted for an offence under sub-paragraph (1) to show that at the relevant time the person had no knowledge, and could not reasonably be expected to have knowledge, of the information in question.