- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Imprisonment 49 of 123 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 19 carry different penalties and 55 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Plus 38 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
Other Acts binding the same actors
If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.
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Employer — also bound by 682 other Acts
Director or Officer — also bound by 429 other Acts
What it requires
Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
- Trespass with intent to commit an offenceAny Person
- Arrange or facilitate begging for financial gainAny Person
Unlimited fine
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must designate a coordinating officer for this ChapterCrown / Minister / Government department
- Appoint a content manager when directed by coordinating officerOperator
- Appoint a content manager if a suitable person becomes available within 2 yearsOperator
- Notify the coordinating officer when you replace your content managerOperator
- Notify the coordinating officer of any change to your registered informationOperator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Police or NCA must review content removal notices on requestStatutory regulator
- Fail to comply with content removal notice or decision noticeAny Person
Fine up to £60,000
- Sell knives or bladed articles to a person under 18Any Person
Unlimited fine
- Deliver bladed product to residential premises without proper age/identity checkAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Deliver crossbow to residential premises or locker without proper checksAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Deliver crossbow to residential premises or locker without proper age checks (Northern Ireland)Any Person
- Fail to report bulk remote sales of bladed articlesAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Fail to report bulk remote sales of bladed articles (Northern Ireland)Any Person
Unlimited fine
- Assault a retail worker at workAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Exploit a child for criminal purposesAny Person
Unlimited fine
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Court must decide on without-notice CCE prevention order applicationsTribunal / Court
- Notify police of name and home address within 3 days of CCE prevention orderAny Person
- Breach a CCE prevention orderAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Control another's home for criminal purposesAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Cause internal concealment of item for criminal purposeAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Make, adapt, possess or supply child sexual abuse image-generatorsAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Make, adapt, possess or supply child sexual abuse (CSA) image-generatorAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Make, adapt, possess or supply child sexual abuse image-generatorsAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Possess child sexual abuse advice or guidance (Scotland)Any Person
Unlimited fine
- Facilitate child sexual exploitation onlineAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Consent or connive to company's child sexual exploitation offenceDirector or Officer
- Prevent or deter reporting of suspected child sex offenceAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Make or supply purported intimate image generatorAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Possess or publish pornographic images of strangulation or suffocationAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Possess or publish pornographic strangulation/suffocation imagesAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Possess or publish pornographic images of child under 16Any Person
Unlimited fine
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must review age and consent verification for online pornCrown / Minister / Government department
- Sexual activity with a corpseAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Notify police of any new name before using itAny Person
- Notify police before leaving home for over 5 daysAny Person
- Notify police before entering premises where children are presentAny Person
- Apply for replacement ID in a new name without authorisationAny Person
Unlimited fine
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Department of Justice must issue stalking disclosure guidance; Chief Constable must follow itCrown / Minister / Government department
- Administer harmful substances (including spiking)Any Person
Unlimited fine
- Encourage or assist serious self-harmAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Threatening, abusive or insulting behaviour towards emergency workersAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Threaten or abuse an emergency workerAny Person
Fine up to £2,500
- Possess, make or supply electronic devices for vehicle crimeAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Possess a SIM farm without a good reasonAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Supply a SIM farm without proper checksAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Possess a specified article without good reasonAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Supply a specified article without proper checksAny Person
Unlimited fine
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Police may restrict face coverings at protest sites for up to 24 hoursStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Police must follow formal procedures when designating protest areas for identity concealmentStatutory regulator
- Climb on a specified war memorial or commemorative structureAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Senior officer must record oral authorisations in writingCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Officials must secure or destroy confidential information extracted under s.173 powersCrown / Minister / Government department
- Notify new names, phone numbers and email addresses to your supervising officerAny Person
- Fail to comply with child cruelty offender notification requirementsAny Person
Unlimited fine
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- IOPC Director General must give victims opportunity to request review of proposed determinationStatutory regulator
- Law enforcement employers must check advisory lists before hiringEmployer
- Comply with directions from the Secretary of StateAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Courts must impose youth diversion orders only when necessary for public protectionTribunal / Court
- Notify police of personal details within 3 days of youth diversion orderAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must issue a code of practice for electronic monitoring data processingCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Police must consult youth bodies before applying for youth diversion orders for under-18sCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Complete required consultation before full hearing after without-notice applicationLocal authority
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Home Secretary must publish proscription regime statementCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must consult devolved authorities before making international information-sharing regulationsCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must report on progress of AI-related Online Safety Act regulations by 31 Dec 2026Crown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Government must consult before bringing provisions into forceCrown / Minister / Government department
189 other provisions — procedural and definitional
Schedules
55 of 463 shown- Carry out a pre-application risk assessment for an injunctionAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Serve cost-recovery applications on RSH providersLocal authority
- Complying with a Child Criminal Exploitation prevention orderAny Person
- Fail to comply with CCE prevention orderAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Fail to comply with notification requirements under CCE prevention orderAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Notify police of your name and address within 3 days if subject to a CCE prevention orderAny Person
- Breach a CCE prevention orderAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Fail to comply with notification requirements under a CCE prevention orderAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Notify police of your name and home address under a CCE prevention orderAny Person
- Use someone to mind a weaponAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Participate in organised crime group or possess paedophile manualAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Attempt, conspire, or incite a serious business offenceAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Supply or manufacture flick knives or gravity knivesAny Person
- Child sexual offences involving contact, payment, or pornographyAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Possess air weapon without certificate or deal without registrationAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Engage in human trafficking or forced labourAny Person
- Produce, supply, or possess psychoactive substances with intent to supplyAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Inciting a person to commit a relevant offenceAny Person
- Deal in or possess prohibited offensive weaponsAny Person
- Possess, deal in, or possess prohibited firearms without a certificate (NI)Any Person
- Produce, supply, possess or cultivate controlled drugsAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Possess extreme pornographic imageAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Engage in child criminal exploitationAny Person
- Attempt or conspire to commit a listed child-related offenceAny Person
- Participate in serious crime related to business activityAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Human trafficking of a person under 18 for sexual exploitationAny Person
- Attempt or conspire to commit a human trafficking or border control offenceAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Encourage or assist a serious crime (human trafficking etc.)Any Person
- Commit human trafficking of a child for sexual exploitationAny Person
- Attempt or conspire to commit a serious specified offenceAny Person
- Traffic a child for sexual exploitationAny Person
- Attempt, conspire, or assist in committing a specified offenceAny Person
- Share a semen-defaced image without consentAny Person
Unlimited fine
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must designate at least one trusted flagger for intimate image reportsCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Regulators must provide rights of appeal against penalties and compliance noticesCrown / Minister / Government department
- Obstruct a constable or fail to comply with a police requirementAny Person
Unlimited fine
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Applicants for search warrants must provide specified informationCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Constable must identify themselves and provide warrant copy when executing a search warrantCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Police must secure premises after a searchCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Appropriate person must retain search warrants for 12 months and allow occupier inspection on requestCrown / Minister / Government department
- Do not disclose a suspension order applicationAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Courts must consider evidence of serious risk of injustice before making assumptions in confiscation casesTribunal / Court
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Court must adjust surcharge duty when sentencing before confiscation proceedingsTribunal / Court
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Criminal courts charge duty removed from sentencingStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Court must set payment terms on revocation of provisional discharge of confiscation orderTribunal / Court
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Court must consider all circumstances and evidence in serious risk of injustice testTribunal / Court
- Cause or allow serious harm or death of a childAny Person
Unlimited fine
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Relevant policing authorities must maintain a barred persons listCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Policing authorities must add resigning officers with pending allegations to advisory listsStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must consult devolved bodies before making regulationsCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Include dismissed NCA officers and constables in barred persons listsStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Policing authorities must add dismissed civilian employees to barred persons listStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Policing authority must remove reinstated officers from barred listCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Police authorities must remove cleared civilian employees from barred listsStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Relevant policing authorities must maintain an advisory listStatutory regulator
408 other schedules
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