{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1980/section-68",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1980/section-68.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/62",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "section/68",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Designation of sports grounds and sporting events.",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may for the purposes of this Part of this Act by order designate—\n(a) a sports ground or a class of sports ground;\n(b) a sporting event, or a class of sporting event, at that ground or at any of that class of ground:\nProvided that a sporting event at which all the participants take part without financial or material reward and to which all spectators are admitted free of charge shall not be subject to an order under this section; but this proviso is without prejudice to the order’s validity as respects any other sporting event.\n(c) a sporting event, or a class of sporting event, taking place outside Great Britain:\n(2) The power to make an order under subsection (1) above shall be exercisable by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 68(1)(c) inserted by Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Act 1985 (c. 57, SIF 39:2), s. 10(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/62/section/68",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:02.530874+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}