Section 11: Offences relating to notification
This section provides that it is a criminal offence to fail to comply with the notification requirements without reasonable excuse or knowingly to provide the police with false information. It will be for a court to decide what constitutes a reasonable excuse in a particular case.
	This is an either way offence, meaning that it can be heard in either a magistrates’ court or the Crown Court depending on the seriousness of the offence. The penalty for breach on conviction by a magistrates’ court (‘summary conviction’) is imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months (or, in relation to an offence committed before section 154(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 comes into force, six months), or a fine, or both. The penalty for breach on conviction by a Crown Court (‘conviction on indictment’) is imprisonment for a maximum term of five years, or a fine, or both.