Part 2: Knife Crime Prevention Orders Section 18: Interim knife crime prevention order: application not determined
This section deals with the court’s powers to grant an interim KCPO where it adjourns a hearing of which notice has been given to the respondent. It allows the court to grant an interim KCPO if an application has also been made, by complaint, for an interim KCPO (either at the same time as the full application or subsequently) and the court considers that it is just to make such an order (subsections (1) to (5)). For example, the court may make an interim KCPO in a case where it is satisfied it is necessary to protect a person from immediate harm pending the full determination of the application for the order. The court is not required to be satisfied of the conditions set out in section 14(3) and (6).
	Subsection (6) provides that an interim KCPO granted as the result of an adjournment of an on notice hearing may include any prohibition or requirement that the court has the power to include in a full KCPO and which the court thinks appropriate.
	Subsection (7) disapplies the time limits imposed by section 127 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 in respect of complaints made under this section.
	This section forms part of the law of England and Wales.