Part 2: Knife Crime Prevention Orders Section 26: Review of knife crime prevention order
This section enables the court to set review hearings for KCPOs which the applicant and respondent must attend (subsection (2)). The purpose of review hearings is to consider whether the KCPO should be varied or discharged (subsection (5).
	Subsections (3) and (4) require the court to set a review hearing if any prohibition or requirement of a KCPO lasts for more than one year from the date on which the KCPO took effect. The review hearing must be held within the last four weeks of the one year period.
	Subsection (6) provides that the provisions in section 27(7) to (9) (conditions for variation, renewal or discharge of a KCPO) apply to variation at a renewal hearing. A court may therefore only impose an additional prohibition or requirement at review if it is satisfied it is necessary to do so to protect the public in England and Wales, generally or a particular person, from harm involving a bladed article or to prevent the defendant from committing an offence involving a bladed article.
	This section forms part of the law of England and Wales.