Section 20: Premises orders
Subsection (1) enables the appropriate court (as defined in subsection (9)) to make a premises order against a person if either condition A or B is met and condition C is met. As with a premises notice, a premises order may only be made against an individual aged 18 or over (subsection (7)); an order may also be made against a body, such as a company.
	The relevant conditions are set out in subsections (3) to (5). Condition A is that the court is satisfied to the civil standard, namely the balance of probabilities, that the respondent has failed to comply with a premises notice. Condition B applies where no premises notice has been given or such a notice is no longer in force because it has been withdrawn and the court is satisfied (to the civil standard) that a prohibited activity is taking place on particular premises. In such a case, the court may make an order against the owner, lessee, occupier, controller or operator if the court considers that the person would fail to comply with a premises notice.
	Condition C, which must be met alongside either condition A or B, requires the court to be satisfied that it is necessary and proportionate to make a premises order in order to prevent  any prohibited activity being carried out on premises owned, leased, occupied, controlled or operated by the respondent. As with a premises notice, a premises order is intended to compel persons who have some responsibility for premises being used to carry on prohibited activity, for example as the owner of retail premises being used to sell psychoactive substances, to take action to stop such activity taking place on those premises.
	Where condition A applies and a court makes a premises order, the relevant premises notice will cease to have effect (subsection (6)).