Scotland appeared in person before District Court Judge Paul Lakatos in Albury on Friday.??
His original two-year good behavior bond without conviction was retracted, and he's now been placed on a 12-month bond with conviction.??
Scotland had pleaded guilty to one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm last October.
??It was then his legal team argued against the Carlton player receiving a conviction because of a long-held ambition to become a firefighter.
??It later emerged the footballer had used that same argument in a separate court matter six years earlier.??
The charge stemmed from an early-morning brawl at the Mulwala Ski Club in Yarrawonga on the Victorian-New South Wales border on January 29.??
The incident saw a 26-year-old Wantirna man knocked unconscious and taken to hospital.
??At the time, Scotland's family claimed the footballer had gone to the aid of his brother.
??Last month Carlton suspended its 2012 best and fairest for the first two games of the home and away season, and ordered him to donate $3000 to charity.
Carlton football manager Andrew McKay said that penalty would not be altered.
“Heath accepts the decision that was made in court today," McKay said.
"The club has already imposed its own sanctions which will not change and we all look forward to putting this matter behind us,” he said.
Matt Thompson is a reporter for AFL Media. Follow him on Twitter @MattThompsonAFL
