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
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.