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The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2024

Type Scottish-Statutory-Instrument

Publication 2024-11-19

State In force

Jurisdiction Scotland

Department King's Printer for Scotland

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Made: 19th November 2024

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 21st November 2024

Coming into force: 16th January 2025

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 18(1) 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 2024 and comes into force on 16 January 2025.

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 entry—

Edinburgh University Sports Union	Edinburgh

(b) insert the following entry at the appropriate place—

Albyn Park	Broxburn

Signed

JENNI MINTO — Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers — 19th November 2024

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 2 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 membership of the football leagues for which the home grounds of member clubs were 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 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10).

[^f00002]: S.S.I. 2014/5, as amended by S.S.I. 2014/374, S.S.I. 2022/86, S.S.I. 2022/263 and S.S.I. 2023/257.

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