Part 1: Labour Market and Illegal Working Section 27: Offence
This section explains that an offence is committed when a respondent fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with an LME order.
	Subsection (2) sets out the maximum penalty for this offence, which is 2 years imprisonment and/or a fine for conviction on indictment; or 12 months imprisonment (6 months in Northern Ireland) and/or a fine on summary conviction.
	Subsection (3) means that where an offence was committed in England and Wales before section 154(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 2004 was commenced, references to 12 months should be read as 6 months.