{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-354",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-354.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/17",
  "legislation_title": "Sentencing Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020",
  "path": "section/354",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "354",
  "heading": "Offence: breach of sexual harm prevention order",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if, without reasonable excuse, the person—\n(a) does anything that the person is prohibited from doing by a sexual harm prevention order, or\n(b) fails to do something that the person is required to do by a sexual harm prevention order.\n(2) See section 113 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 for offences in Scotland and Northern Ireland of breaching such an order.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the general limit in a magistrates’ court, or a fine, or both;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years, or a fine, or both.\n(5) An order for conditional discharge is not available in respect of an offence under this section.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 354(1) substituted (29.11.2022) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 175(6)(a), 208(1); S.I. 2022/1227, reg. 3(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in S. 354(2) substituted (29.11.2022) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 175(6)(b), 208(1); S.I. 2022/1227, reg. 3(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 354(3) omitted (29.11.2022) by virtue of Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), ss. 175(6)(c), 208(1); S.I. 2022/1227, reg. 3(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 354(4)(a) substituted (29.6.2026) by Victims and Courts Act 2026 (c. 19), ss. 15(1), 18(2) (with s. 15(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 354 in force at 1.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2020/17",
      "affecting_title": "Sentencing Act 2020"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/17/section/354",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:00:57.370248+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."
}