Part 1: Labour Market and Illegal Working Section 18: Power to make LME order on application
This section sets out the circumstances in which the appropriate court may make an LME order on the application of the enforcing authority.
	Subsection (1) sets out that the court may make an order if it is satisfied that on the balance of probabilities the person has committed or is committing a relevant offence; and that it is just and reasonable to do so.
	Subsection (2) explains that an LME order can prohibit or restrict the person against whom it is made (the respondent) from doing, or require them to do, anything set out in the order.
	Subsection (3) defines the appropriate court as a magistrates’ court, sheriff or court of summary jurisdiction, according to where the conduct constituting the relevant offence took place.
	Subsection (4) explains that an application is to be made by complaint.