Part 2Serious disruption prevention orders
Offences
I1I227Offences relating to a serious disruption prevention order
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.