# Sentencing Act 2020, Section 358G: Offence of breaching CCE prevention order

Status: prospective

(1) A person who, without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with a CCE prevention order commits an offence.
(2) A person who commits an offence under this section is liable—
(a) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the general limit in a magistrates’ court or a fine (or both);
(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or a fine (or both).
(3) Where a person is convicted of an offence under this section, it is not open to the court by or before which the person is convicted to make, in respect of the offence, an order for conditional discharge.
(4) In proceedings for an offence under this section, a copy of the original CCE prevention order, certified by the proper officer of the court that made it, is admissible as evidence of its having been made and of its contents to the same extent that oral evidence of those matters is admissible in those proceedings.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/17/section/358G (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/sentencing-act-2020/section-358G
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