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71.—(1) If a person fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with any prohibition or requirement contained in—
(a)a violent offences prevention order, or
(b)an interim violent offences prevention order,
the person commits an offence.
(2) If a person fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with—
(a)section 65(1), 66(1) or (6)(b), 67(1), 68(2) or (6) or 70(3), or
(b)any requirement imposed by regulations made under section 69(1),
the person commits an offence.
(3) If a person notifies to the police, in purported compliance with—
(a)section 65(1), 66(1), 67(1) or 68(2) or (6), or
(b)any requirement imposed by regulations made under section 69(1),
any information which the person knows to be false, the person commits an offence.
(4) As regards an offence under subsection (2), so far as it relates to non-compliance with—
(a)section 65(1), 66(1), 67(1) or 68(2) or (6), or
(b)any requirement imposed by regulations made under section 69(1),
a person commits such an offence on the first day on which the person first fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with the provision mentioned in paragraph (a) or (as the case may be) the requirement mentioned in paragraph (b), and continues to commit it throughout any period during which the failure continues.
(5) But a person must not be prosecuted under subsection (2) more than once in respect of the same failure.
(6) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—
(a)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or both;
(b)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or a fine or both.
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