Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12)

PART 4 E+W Community protection

CHAPTER 2 E+W Public spaces protection orders [F1 and expedited orders]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Pt. 4 Ch. 2 heading inserted (28.6.2022) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), s. 208(1), Sch. 7 para. 2; S.I. 2022/520, reg. 5(j)

Failure to comply with orders E+W

67 Offence of failing to comply with order E+W

(1) It is an offence for a person without reasonable excuse—

(a) to do anything that the person is prohibited from doing by a public spaces protection order [F2 or an expedited order], or

(b) to fail to comply with a requirement to which the person is subject under a public spaces protection order [F2 or an expedited order].

(2) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

(3) A person does not commit an offence under this section by failing to comply with a prohibition or requirement that the local authority did not have power to include in the public spaces protection order [F3 or expedited order].

(4) Consuming alcohol in breach of a public spaces protection order [F4 or an expedited order] is not an offence under this section (but see section 63).

Textual Amendments

F2 Words in s. 67(1) inserted (28.6.2022) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), s. 208(1), Sch. 7 para. 12(2); S.I. 2022/520, reg. 5(j)

F3 Words in s. 67(3) inserted (28.6.2022) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), s. 208(1), Sch. 7 para. 12(3); S.I. 2022/520, reg. 5(j)

F4 Words in s. 67(4) inserted (28.6.2022) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), s. 208(1), Sch. 7 para. 12(2); S.I. 2022/520, reg. 5(j)

Commencement Information

I1 S. 67 in force at 20.10.2014 by S.I. 2014/2590, art. 3(c)