Organised Crime Act 2015 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Organised Crime Prevention Orders
17. Duration of OCPO
Feedback & supportAn OCPO must specify when it is to come into force and when it is to cease to be in force.
An OCPO is not to be in force for more than 5 years beginning with the coming into force of the OCPO.
An OCPO may specify different times for the coming into force, or ceasing to be in force, of different provisions of the OCPO.
Where an OCPO specifies different times in accordance with subsection (3), the OCPO —
must specify when each provision is to come into force and cease to be in force; and
is not to be in force for more than 5 years beginning with the coming into force of the first provision of the OCPO to come into force.
The fact that an OCPO, or any provision of an OCPO, ceases to be in force does not prevent the court which first made the OCPO from making a new OCPO to the same or similar effect.
A new OCPO may be made in anticipation of an earlier OCPO or provision ceasing to be in force.