The Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 1992

Made: 9th March 1992

Laid before Parliament: 13th March 1992

Coming into force: 1st June 1992

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by sections 1(1) and 18(2) of the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975[^f00001], and after such consultation as is mentioned in section 18(4) of that Act, I hereby make the following Order:

1

This Order may be cited as the Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 1st June 1992.

2

The sports grounds at—

• (a) The Athletics Stadium, Crystal Palace National Sports Centre, Ledrington Road, London SE19; and

• (b) The Don Valley Stadium, Worksop Road, Sheffield,

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

3

In the Schedule to the Safety of Sports Grounds (Rugby Football Grounds) (Designation) Order 1985[^f00002], the entries in respect of—

• (a) Crown Flatt, Dewsbury, and

• (b) Craven Park, Hull,

shall be omitted.

4

In Schedule 1 to the Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 1986[^f00003], the entries in respect of—

• (a) Loakes Park, High Wycombe;

• (b) Sheffield Sports Stadium, Penistone Road, Owlerton, Sheffield, and

• (c) Yeovil Athletic Ground, Huish, Yeovil,

shall be omitted.

Signed

Kenneth Baker — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — 9th March 1992

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Article 2 of this Order designates the sports grounds specified therein as sports grounds requiring safety certificates under the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975. That Act was amended by Schedule 2 to the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 so that references to sports grounds were substituted for the references to sports stadia.

Articles 3 and 4 of this Order vary the Orders referred to therein by omitting entries which, with the exception of the Sheffield Sports Stadium, are no longer sports grounds. That Stadium is no longer used for the same purposes as those other grounds designated under the 1975 Act.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1975 c. 52; section 1(1) was amended by Schedule 2 to the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 (c. 27).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1985/1064.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1986/1296.