Part 1Provisions for Combatting Crime and Disorder
Chapter 3Other provisions for combatting crime and disorder
Travel restrictions on drug trafficking offenders
36Offences of contravening orders
1
A person who leaves the United Kingdom at a time when he is prohibited from leaving it by a travel restriction order is guilty of an offence and liable—
a
on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or to both;
b
on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to a fine, or to both.
2
A person who is not in the United Kingdom at the end of a period during which a prohibition imposed on him by a travel restriction order has been suspended shall be guilty of an offence and liable—
a
on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or to both;
b
on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to a fine, or to both.
3
A person who fails to comply with—
a
a direction contained in a travel restriction order to deliver up a passport to a court, or to cause such a passport to be delivered up, or
b
any duty imposed on him by section 35(5)(b) to surrender a passport to the Secretary of State,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or to both.
4
This section has effect subject to section 37(3).