SECOND GROUP OF PARTSProvisions applying to sentencing courts generally
PART 3Procedure
CHAPTER 1Information and reports
Financial circumstances orders
36Financial circumstances order: offences
(1)
It is an offence for an individual to fail without reasonable excuse to comply with a financial circumstances order.
(2)
An individual who is guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(3)
It is an offence for an individual, in furnishing any statement in pursuance of a financial circumstances order—
(a)
to make a statement which the individual knows to be false in a material particular,
(b)
recklessly to furnish a statement which is false in a material particular, or
(c)
knowingly to fail to disclose any material fact.
(4)
An individual who is guilty of an offence under subsection (3) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
(5)
Proceedings for an offence under subsection (3) may be commenced at any time which is both—
(a)
within 2 years from the date of the offence, and
(b)
within 6 months from its first discovery by the prosecutor.
This subsection has effect despite anything in section 127(1) of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (limitation of time).