Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Act 2021 (asp 16)

Part 1 S Domestic abuse protection notices and orders

Prospective

Relationship with orders regulating contact and residence S

19 Relationship of notice or order with order regulating contact or residence S

For the avoidance of doubt—

(a) nothing in a court order which regulates contact with, or the residence of, a child limits the requirements or prohibitions that may be imposed by a notice or order under this Part, and

(b) accordingly, it is not a defence to a charge of committing an offence under section 7(1) or 17(1) that person A was doing something which person A was entitled to do by virtue of such a court order.