# Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001, Section 36: Offences of contravening orders

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(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 passport to a court, or to cause such a passport to be delivered up, or
(b) any duty imposed on him by section 35(5)(b) to surrender a passport 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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/16/section/36 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-police-act-2001/section-36
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