The Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 1978

Type Statutory-Instrument
Publication 1978-07-28
State In force
Department Westlaw
PDF Download
articles Not indexed
Reform history JSON API

Made: 28th July 1978

Laid before Parliament: 7th August 1978

Coming into Operation: 1st January 1979

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 1(1) of the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975, and after such consultation as is mentioned in section 18(4) thereof, I hereby make the following Order:—

1

This Order may be cited as the Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 1978 and shall come into operation on 1st January 1979.

2

The sports stadia specified in the Schedule to this Order (being stadia each of which in the opinion of the Secretary of State has accommodation for more than 10,000 spectators) are hereby designated as stadia requiring safety certificates under the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975.

SCHEDULE

Address of stadium Occupier of Stadium
Burnden Park Bolton Bolton Wanderers Football and Athletic Co. Ltd.
Hillsborough Sheffield Sheffield Wednesday Football Club Ltd.
The Dell Milton Road Southampton Southampton Football Club Ltd.

Signed

Merlyn Rees — One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State — Home Office — 28th July 1978

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

By this Order the Secretary of State designates certain sports stadia as stadia requiring safety certificates under the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975.

Reading this document does not replace reading the official text published on legislation.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We assume no responsibility for any inaccuracies arising from the conversion of the original CLML XML to this format.

This text is published under legislation.gov.uk's own terms of reuse, not a Legalize or public-domain licence. legislation.gov.uk
Open Government Licence v3.0 (attribution required)
© Crown and database right. Derived from content available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 from legislation.gov.uk.