This section applies where a court has made a knife crime prevention order in respect of a defendant.

The court may order the applicant and the defendant to attend one or more review hearings on a specified date or dates.

Subsection (4) applies if any requirement or prohibition imposed by the knife crime prevention order is to have effect after the end of the period of 1 year beginning with the day on which the order takes effect.

The court must order the applicant and the defendant to attend a review hearing on a specified date within the last 4 weeks of the 1 year period (whether or not the court orders them to attend any other review hearings).

A review hearing under this section is a hearing held for the purpose of considering whether the knife crime prevention order should be varied or discharged.

Subsections (7) to (9) of section 27 (variation, renewal or discharge) apply to the variation of a knife crime prevention order under this section as they apply to the variation of an order under that section.