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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348275452",
  "legislation_title": "The Football Governance Act 2025 (Specified Competitions) Regulations 2025",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Draft Regulations laid before Parliament under section 91(3)(a)(i) of the Football Governance Act 2025 (c. 21), for approval by resolution of each House of Parliament.\nSPORTS GROUNDS AND SPORTING EVENTS, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade ***\nComing into force 24th November 2025\nThe Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(3) of the Football Governance Act 2025.\nThe Secretary of State is content that for each competition specified in these Regulations, the teams entered into that competition, or that are members of it or participate in it, are exclusively or predominantly English teams.\nIn accordance with section 91(3)(a)(i) of that Act, a draft of this instrument was laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2025 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 2(4) of that Act provides that a team is an “English team” if the ground at which the team customarily plays its home matches is in England."
    }
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  "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."
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