Part 2: Serious Disruption Prevention Orders Section 20: Serious disruption prevention order made on conviction
Subsection (1) provides for the preliminary conditions that must be satisfied before a court can make an order, namely that the person is aged 18 or over, has been convicted of an offence which was committed on or after section 20 came into force and the prosecution has applied for an order to be made (consequently, a court may not make an order on its own volition under this section).
	Subsections (2) to (5) sets out further conditions for the making of an order. These require that the person has been convicted by the court of a protest-related offence and that on another occasion (that is, at a different protest or on a different day) within the relevant period the person has:
been convicted of another protest-related offence;
been found in contempt of court for a protest-related breach of an injunction;
	In addition, subsection (3)(c) stipulates that the conduct detailed in subsection 3(a) cannot be considered if it was already accounted for in the making of a prior serious disruption prevention order involving the individual.
	The other occasions must have occurred no earlier than five years before the order is made after section 20 comes into force and when the person concerned was aged 16 or older at the time (subsection (4)).
	In determining whether the current offence is protest-related and the condition in subsection 3 is met, the court will apply the civil standard of proof (the balance of probabilities).
	Under subsection (5), the court must consider it necessary to make the order for a purpose specified in subsection (5). Those purposes are to:
prevent the person from committing a protest-related offence or a protest-related breach of an injunction,
prevent the person from carrying out activities related to protests that result, or are likely to result in, serious disruption to two or more individuals or an organisation,
prevent the person from causing or contributing to the commission by another person of the acts set out at (a) or (b) above (for example, where the person was responsible for organising protests),
protect two or more individuals or an organisation from the risk of serious disruption caused by a protest-related offence, a protest-related breach of an injunction or activities related to a protest.
	Subsection (6) specifies that a SDPO under section 20 is an order which imposes any requirement or prohibition necessary to achieve one of the purposes specified in subsection (5), although section 22 provides a non-exhaustive list of such requirements or prohibitions.
	Subsection (7) provides that a court may only make a SDPO under this section if a person has a sentence imposed in respect of the current offence, or an order discharging that person conditionally. Consequently, if the person concerned is given an absolute discharge no SDPO may be made.
	Subsections (8) and (9) enables the court to hear evidence from both the person and the prosecution when deciding whether to make an order, and such evidence may include evidence that would not have been admissible in the proceedings for the current offence (for example, hearsay evidence).
	Subsection (10) enables a court to adjourn the proceedings regarding the serious disruption prevention order even after sentencing the person.
	Subsections (11) to (13) set out the powers of a court where the person concerned does not appear for any adjourned proceedings.
	Subsection (14) requires the court to explain the effects of the order in ordinary language to the person concerned.
	Subsection (15) provides that where an offence is committed over two or more days, or during two or more days, it is to be treated as having been committed on the last of those days.