Valid from 05/07/2021
(1)A person commits an offence if, without reasonable excuse, the person breaches a knife crime prevention order or an interim knife crime prevention order.
(2)A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable—
(a)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months, to a fine or to both;
(b)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, to a fine or to both.
(3)In relation to an offence committed before the coming into force of [F1paragraph 24(2) of Schedule 22 to the Sentencing Act 2020] (maximum sentence that may be imposed on summary conviction of offence triable either way) the reference in subsection (2)(a) to 12 months is to be read as a reference to 6 months.
(4)Where a person is convicted of an offence under this section, it is not open to the court by or before which the person is convicted to make, in respect of the offence, an order for conditional discharge.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 29(3) substituted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 para. 443(1) (with Sch. 24 para. 447, Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2