Remedial orders and publicity orders
Section 30 – Power to order offence to be remedied or publicised
108.Section 30 makes provision for the court to make a remedial order or a publicity order in respect of a care provider where that care provider has been convicted of an offence under section 27(1) (the “care provider offence”). A remedial order will require the care provider to take steps (specified in the order itself) to remedy matters relating to the gross breach (described in paragraph 103 above). Any order made must specify a compliance period within which requirements made in the order must be complied with. Where a care provider fails to comply with either a remedial order or a publicity order, the care provider commits an offence (subsection (10)). Subsection (11) sets out the penalties for non-compliance with an order: on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; and, on conviction on indictment, to a fine.
Section 31 – Remedial and publicity orders: prosecutor’s right of appeal
109.Section 31 makes amendments to the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 to enable the prosecutor, in both solemn and summary proceedings, to appeal against a decision of the court not to make a publicity order or a remedial order.
