Part 2: Knife Crime Prevention Orders Section 29: Offence of breaching knife crime prevention order etc
Section 29 makes it an offence for a person to breach (that is, to do anything which is prohibited by or fail to do anything which is required by) a KCPO or interim KCPO without reasonable excuse. The court must be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt the individual has, without reasonable excuse, breached the order.
	The maximum penalty for a breach is twelve months imprisonment or a fine or both on summary conviction, or two years imprisonment or a fine or both following conviction on indictment (subsection (2)). Subsection (4) precludes the court from making an order for a conditional discharge following a conviction for an offence under this section. The maximum 12-month sentence on summary conviction is contingent on section 154(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 coming into force and until that time the maximum sentence will be six months (subsection (3)).
	This section forms part of the law of England and Wales.