The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Amendment) Order 2013

Made: 10th July 2013

Laid before Parliament: 12th July 2013

Coming into force: 2nd August 2013

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 9(3) of the Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Act 1985[^f00001], makes the following Order.

Citation and commencement and extent

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This Order may be cited as the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Amendment) Order 2013 and shall come into force on 2nd August 2013.

Amendments to the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) Order 2005

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• (1) Schedule 2 to the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) Order 2005[^f00002] is amended as follows.

• (2) In paragraph 1 of Part 1—

• (a) for “the Scottish Football League” substitute “the Scottish Professional Football League”;

• (b) omit “for the time being”.

• (3) In Part 2 for “the Scottish Football League” substitute “the Scottish Professional Football League”.

Signed

Damian Green — Minister of State — Home Office — 10th July 2013

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) Order 2005 for the purposes of designating sporting events to which the Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc) Act 1985 applies.

The Order substitutes a reference to the Scottish Professional Football League for the Scottish Football League, following the merger of that league with the Scottish Premier League to form one body. The Order also clarifies that an association football match is designated where the match involves clubs whose home grounds are outside England or Wales but they are playing within England or Wales.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1985 c. 57. Section 9 has been amended by paragraph 101 of Schedule 6 to, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 7 to, the Licensing Act 2003 (c. 17).

[^f00002]: S.I. 2005/3204. Paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to this instrument has been amended by S.I. 2011/1186.