{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/psychoactive-substances-act-2016/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/psychoactive-substances-act-2016/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2016/2",
  "legislation_title": "Psychoactive Substances Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/psychoactive-substances-act-2016",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Offence of failing to comply with an access prohibition, etc",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where a prohibition order or a premises order imposes an access prohibition (see section 22(6)).\n(2) A person, other than the person against whom the order was made, who without reasonable excuse remains on or enters premises in contravention of the access prohibition commits an offence.\n(3) A person who without reasonable excuse obstructs a person acting under section 23(1) commits an offence.\n(4) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (2) or (3) is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction in England and Wales, to either or both of the following—\n(i) imprisonment for a term not exceeding 51 weeks (or 6 months, if the offence was committed before the commencement of section 281(5) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003);\n(ii) a fine;\n(b) on summary conviction in Scotland, to either or both of the following—\n(i) imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months;\n(ii) a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale;\n(c) on summary conviction in Northern Ireland, to either or both of the following—\n(i) imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months;\n(ii) a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 27 in force at 26.5.2016 by S.I. 2016/553, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2016/2/section/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:06:34.525412+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}