35.—(1) A person who—
(a)contravenes a requirement in regulation 4(1), 6(1) or (3), 7(1), 9(1) or (2), 11(2), 12(2), 13(2), 14(2), 16, 22(1) or 23(1), or
(b)without reasonable excuse, contravenes a requirement in regulation 8(1), 11(3), 12(3), 13(3), 14(3), 19(1), 20(1) or (2), or 22(5),
commits an offence.
(2) It is an offence for a person (“P”) to give false or misleading information to a contact tracer—
(a)under regulation 11(3), 12(3), 13(3) or 14(3), or
(b)about—
(i)P’s contact information, or
(ii)persons with whom P may have had close contact,
where P knows the information is false or misleading, or P is reckless as to whether the information is false or misleading.
(3) A person who participates in a gathering—
(a)which takes place in a private dwelling,
(b)which consists of more than 15 people, and
(c)at which people are gathered in contravention of regulation 4(1),
commits an offence.
(4) A person who obstructs, without reasonable excuse, any person carrying out a function under these Regulations commits an offence.
(5) A person who—
(a)without reasonable excuse, contravenes paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 3,
(b)contravenes paragraph 3(2) of that Schedule, or
(c)without reasonable excuse, removes, obscures or damages a notice or sign required to be displayed under paragraph 7(2)(a) of that Schedule,
commits an offence.
(6) A person who, without reasonable excuse—
(a)contravenes a direction given—
(i)by an enforcement officer under Part 7, or
(ii)by the operator of a public transport service, an employee of the operator, or a person authorised by the operator, under regulation 30(2), or
(b)fails to comply with a compliance notice given by an enforcement officer under regulation 27(1),
commits an offence.
(7) An offence under these Regulations is punishable on summary conviction by a fine.
(8) Section 24 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984(1) applies in relation to an offence under this regulation as if the reasons in subsection (5) included—
(a)to maintain public health;
(b)to maintain public order.
(9) In this regulation, “close contact” has the same meaning as in Part 4.
1984 c. 60. Section 24 was substituted by section 110(1) of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15).