OffencesE+W
27Offences relating to a serious disruption prevention orderE+W
(1)Where a serious disruption prevention order has effect in respect of a person (“P”), P commits an offence if P—
(a)fails without reasonable excuse to do anything P is required to do by the order,
(b)without reasonable excuse does anything P is prohibited from doing by the order, or
(c)notifies to the police, in purported compliance with the order, any information which P knows to be false.
(2)A person who commits an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the maximum term for summary offences, to a fine or to both.
(3)In subsection (2) “the maximum term for summary offences” means—
(a)if the offence is committed before the time when section 281(5) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (alteration of penalties for certain summary offences: England and Wales) comes into force, six months;
(b)if the offence is committed after that time, 51 weeks.
Commencement Information
I1S. 27 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 35(5)
I2S. 27 in force at 5.4.2024 by S.I. 2024/472, reg. 2(h)