Part 1 Provisions for Combatting Crime and Disorder

Chapter 3 Other provisions for combatting crime and disorder

Travel restrictions on drug trafficking offenders

36 Offences 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 F1passport to a court, or to cause such a F1passport to be delivered up, or

(b)

any duty imposed on him by section 35(5)(b) to surrender a F1passport 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).