Part 2: Knife Crime Prevention Orders Section 19: Knife crime prevention order made on conviction
This section provides the court with a power to make KCPOs following a conviction. A KCPO may be made against a person aged 12 or over by any court dealing with the defendant in respect of the conviction (e.g. a crown court, a magistrates’ court or a youth court).
	Section 19 sets out the conditions that must be met for the court to make a KCPO on conviction. Firstly, the court must be satisfied, on the balance of probabilities (the civil standard of proof), that the defendant has committed a relevant offence (subsection (1)(b)). A relevant offence is an offence involving violence (or the threat of violence) or where a bladed article was used or carried by the defendant or any other person in the commission of the offence (subsection (10)). A bladed article is an article to which section 139 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 applies.
	Secondly, an application must have been made by the prosecution (subsection (3)); the court may not make an order on its own volition. This would normally be at the instigation of the police.
	Thirdly, subsection (4) requires the court to think it necessary to make the order to protect the public generally, or particular persons (including the defendant), from the risk of physical or psychological harm involving a bladed article or to prevent the defendant from committing an offence involving a bladed article.
	The purpose of the order is to prohibit or require the defendant to do anything described in the order for the specified protective purposes (subsection (5)).
	An order may only be made against a defendant when he or she has been sentenced for the offence or given a conditional discharge (subsection (7)). The court can consider evidence which was inadmissible in the criminal proceedings (subsections (8) and (9)). This could include hearsay or bad character evidence.
	This section forms part of the law of England and Wales.