Part 2: Knife Crime Prevention Orders Section 16: Application without notice
Applications for a KCPO will normally be made following the giving of notice to the respondent, however this section allows the applicant to make an application for a KCPO without giving such notice (subsection (1)). Without notice applications should, in practice, only be made in exceptional or urgent circumstances and the applicant will need to produce evidence to the court as to why a without notice hearing is necessary.
	Where a without notice application is made, the court may adjourn the proceedings, adjourn the proceedings and grant an interim KCPO pending a full hearing following the giving of notice to the respondent, or dismiss the application (subsection (3)).
	The applicant is not required to comply with the YOT consultation requirement in section 15(4) to (6) of the Act before making such an application. However, the applicant must meet the consultation requirement before the first full hearing, of which the respondent will have been notified (subsection (4)).
	This section forms part of the law of England and Wales.