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.