Offensive Weapons Act 2019

22 Requirements included in knife crime prevention order etc

(1) A knife crime prevention order or interim knife crime prevention order which imposes a requirement on a defendant must specify a person who is to be responsible for supervising compliance with the requirement.

(2) That person may be an individual or an organisation.

(3) Before including a requirement, the court must receive evidence about its suitability and enforceability from—

(a) the individual to be specified under subsection (1), if an individual is to be specified;

(b) an individual representing the organisation to be specified under subsection (1), if an organisation is to be specified.

(4) Before including two or more requirements, the court must consider their compatibility with each other.

(5) It is the duty of a person specified under subsection (1)—

(a) to make any necessary arrangements in connection with the requirements for which the person has responsibility (the “relevant requirements”);

(b) to promote the defendant’s compliance with the relevant requirements;

(c) if the person considers that the defendant—

(i) has complied with all of the relevant requirements, or

(ii) has failed to comply with a relevant requirement,

to inform the appropriate chief officer of police.

(6) In subsection (5)(c) “the appropriate chief officer of police” means—

(a) the chief officer of police for the police area in which it appears to the person specified under subsection (1) that the defendant lives, or

(b) if it appears to that person that the defendant lives in more than one police area, whichever of the chief officers of police of those areas the person thinks it is most appropriate to inform.

(7) A defendant subject to a requirement in a knife crime prevention order or interim knife crime prevention order must—

(a) keep in touch with the person specified under subsection (1) in relation to that requirement, in accordance with any instructions given by that person from time to time, and

(b) notify that person of any change of the defendant’s home address.

(8) The obligations mentioned in subsection (7) have effect as if they were requirements imposed on the defendant by the order.