Section 342G: Offences relating to a serious violence reduction order

Sentencing Act 2020 · 2020 c. 17View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 11: Behaviour orders — CHAPTER 1A: Serious violence reduction orders

Where a serious violence reduction order is in effect, the offender commits an offence if the offender—

fails without reasonable excuse to do anything the offender is required to do by the order,
without reasonable excuse does anything the offender is prohibited from doing by the order,
notifies to the police, in purported compliance with the order, any information which the offender knows to be false,
tells a constable that they are not subject to a serious violence reduction order, or
intentionally obstructs a constable in the exercise of any power conferred by section 342E.

A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—

on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the general limit in a magistrates’ court, or a fine, or both;
on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, or a fine, or both.

In relation to an offence committed before the coming into force of paragraph 24(2) of Schedule 22 (maximum sentence that may be imposed on summary conviction of offence triable either way) the reference in subsection (2)(a) to the general limit in a magistrates’ court is to be read as a reference to 6 months.

If a person is convicted of an offence under this section, an order for conditional discharge under section 80 is not available to the court by or before which the person is convicted.

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