PART 2Knife crime prevention orders

Notification requirements

I125Offences relating to notification

1

A person commits an offence if the person—

a

fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with section 24(2) or (5), or

b

notifies to the police, in purported compliance with section 24(2) or (5), any information which the person knows to be false.

2

A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable—

a

on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding F3the general limit in a magistrates’ court, to a fine or to both;

b

on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, to a fine or to both.

3

In relation to an offence committed before F12 May 2022 the reference in section (2)(a) to F2the general limit in a magistrates’ court is to be read as a reference to 6 months.

4

A person commits an offence under subsection (1)(a) on the day on which the person first fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with section 24(2) or (5).

5

The person continues to commit the offence throughout any period during which the failure continues.

6

But the person may not be prosecuted more than once in respect of the same offence.

7

Proceedings for an offence under this section may be commenced in any court having jurisdiction in any place where the person charged with the offence lives or is found.