Paragraph 18

United Kingdom

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 7 para. 18(2)(a) words substituted by Criminal Justice Act 2003 Sch. 26 para. 55(5)
Sch. 7 para. 11B 11C and cross-heading inserted by Crime and Policing Act 2026 s. 178(1)
Sch. 7 para. 11(2)(a) words substituted by Crime and Policing Act 2026 s. 238(2)(a)
Sch. 7 para. 11(3)-(5) inserted by Crime and Policing Act 2026 s. 238(2)(b)
Sch. 7 para. 11A(4) inserted by Crime and Policing Act 2026 s. 238(3)

(1)

A person commits an offence if he—

(a)

wilfully fails to comply with a duty imposed under or by virtue of this Schedule,

(b)

wilfully contravenes a prohibition imposed under or by virtue of this Schedule, or

(c)

wilfully obstructs, or seeks to frustrate, a search or examination under or by virtue of this Schedule.

(2)

A person guilty of an offence under this paragraph shall be liable on summary conviction to—

(a)

imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months,

(b)

a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale, or

(c)

both.

Table Designated Ports Great Britain

Seaports	Airports
Ardrossan Cairnryan Campbeltown Fishguard Fleetwood Heysham Holyhead F1Loch Ryan Pembroke Dock Plymouth Poole Harbour Port of Liverpool Portsmouth Continental Ferry Port Southampton F2... Swansea Torquay Troon Weymouth	Aberdeen Biggin Hill Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth (Hurn) Bristol Cambridge Cardiff Carlisle Coventry East Midlands Edinburgh Exeter Glasgow Gloucester/Cheltenham (Staverton) Humberside Leeds/Bradford Liverpool London-City London-Gatwick London-Heathrow Luton Lydd Manchester Manston Newcastle Norwich Plymouth Prestwick Sheffield City Southampton Southend Stansted Teesside

Northern Ireland

Seaports	Airports
Ballycastle Belfast Larne Port of Londonderry Warrenpoint	Belfast City Belfast International City of Derry

Seaports

Airports

Ballycastle

Belfast

Larne

Port of Londonderry

Warrenpoint

Belfast City

Belfast International

City of Derry

Annotations

F1: Words in Sch. 7 inserted (1.9.2011) by The Terrorism Act 2000 (Designated Ports) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1938), arts. 1(2), 2(2)(a)
F2: Word in Sch. 7 omitted (1.9.2011) by virtue of The Terrorism Act 2000 (Designated Ports) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1938), arts. 1(2), 2(2)(b)

C1: Schs. 7, 8, 14 extended (with modifications) (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2) of the extending S.I.) by The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Juxtaposed Controls) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2818), art. 11(1)(b), Sch. 2 (as amended (31.3.2021) by The Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Juxtaposed Controls) (Amendment) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/311), arts. 1(2), 2(7)(b)(i))
C2: Sch. 7 modified by S.I. 1993/1813, Sch. 4 para. 3 (as substituted (13.8.2020) by Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 (c. 3), s. 27(2)(d), Sch. 4 para. 21(1) (with Sch. 4 para. 21(2)); S.I. 2020/792, reg. 2(i); (as amended (30.9.2020) by The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/915), arts. 1(2), 5(6)(a))
C3: Sch. 7 modified (30.9.2020 immediately after the entry into force of S.I. 2020/915, art. 5) by The Channel Tunnel (Arrangements with the Kingdom of the Netherlands) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/916), arts. 1(3), 6
C4: Sch. 7 modified by S.I. 1994/1405, art. 7 (as amended (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(3) of the amending S.I.) by The Channel Tunnel (International Arrangements and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/915), arts. 1(3), 11)