PART 4Community protection

CHAPTER 2Public spaces protection orders

Failure to comply with orders

I167Offence of failing to comply with order

1

It is an offence for a person without reasonable excuse—

a

to do anything that the person is prohibited from doing by a public spaces protection order, or

b

to fail to comply with a requirement to which the person is subject under a public spaces protection order.

2

A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

3

A person does not commit an offence under this section by failing to comply with a prohibition or requirement that the local authority did not have power to include in the public spaces protection order.

4

Consuming alcohol in breach of a public spaces protection order is not an offence under this section (but see section 63).