Section 17: Meaning of "prohibition order"
This section defines a prohibition order for the purposes of the Act. As with a prohibition notice, a prohibition order will include either a general prohibition on the respondent carrying out any prohibited activity, that is conduct to which the offences in sections 4 to 8 relate (or assisting or encouraging such conduct), or a prohibition on carrying out a specified prohibited activity (for example, a prohibition on an online company offering to supply psychoactive substances from a named website or on a retailer supplying psychoactive substances from a specified head shop). There are two routes for the making of a prohibition order, either an application to the courts by a relevant law enforcement agency under section 18, or on conviction of a person before the criminal courts for an offence under sections 4 to 8 (or an associated secondary offence).