Part 2: Knife Crime Prevention Orders Section 17: Interim knife crime prevention order: application without notice
This section deals with the court’s powers to grant an interim KCPO where it adjourns the hearing of an application which has been made without notice. This will usually occur where a without notice hearing has been sought to prevent imminent harm or abscondment. An adjournment may be necessary to enable further information to be gathered ahead of a full hearing and to enable the respondent to attend a full hearing.
	The court can only grant an interim KCPO following a without notice application where it considers it necessary to do so ((subsection (3)). Subsections (4) and (5) provide that such order may impose such prohibitions as may be imposed in a full KCPO (and as the court thinks are required) but may not include any positive requirements. The court is not required to be satisfied of the conditions set out in section 14(3) and (6).
	This section forms part of the law of England and Wales.