The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2022

Made: 8th March 2022

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 10th March 2022

Coming into force: 5th May 2022

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 18 of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995[^f00001] and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

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This Order may be cited as the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2022 and comes into force on 5 May 2022.

Amendment of the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2014

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• (1) The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2014[^f00002] is amended as follows.

• (2) In schedule 1 (sports grounds)—

• (a) omit the following entries—

• (b) insert the following entries at the appropriate places—

• (3) In schedule 2 (classes of sporting events), in paragraph 4—

• (a) in sub-paragraph (g), omit “or”,

• (b) in sub-paragraph (h), for “.” substitute “; or”,

• (c) after sub-paragraph (h) insert—

(i) the UEFA Europa Conference League.

Signed

KEVIN STEWART — Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers — 8th March 2022

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2014 (“the 2014 Order”). The 2014 Order designates sports grounds, classes of sporting events played at those grounds and classes of sporting events outside Great Britain for the purposes of Part II of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995 (sporting events: control of alcohol etc.).

Article 2 (2) of this Order makes changes to the list of sports grounds designated in the 2014 Order to reflect changes to the names of several of the previously designated grounds. Further, it removes some of the previously designated grounds, and adds additional grounds, to reflect changes to the membership of the football leagues for which the home grounds of member clubs were designated in the 2014 Order.

Article 2 (3) of this Order adds association football matches in the competition for the UEFA Europa Conference League to the list of classes of sporting events designated in the 2014 Order.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1995 c. 39. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46). Section 18 has been modified by paragraph 2 of schedule 3 to the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10).

[^f00002]: S.S.I. 2014/5, relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2014/374.