{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-football-spectators-relevant-offences-regulations-2022/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-football-spectators-relevant-offences-regulations-2022/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2022/9780348238662",
  "legislation_title": "The Football Spectators (Relevant Offences) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-football-spectators-relevant-offences-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Addition of a relevant offence to Schedule 1 to the Football Spectators Act 1989",
  "text": "In paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Football Spectators Act 1989 (football banning orders: relevant offences), after sub-paragraph (y), insert—\n“(z) any offence under section 4(3) or 5 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (supply or possession etc. of controlled substances) committed by the accused in relation to a Class A drug, as defined in section 2(1)(b) of that Act, at any football match to which this Schedule applies or while entering or trying to enter the ground.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“Relevant offence” is defined in section 14(1) of the 1989 Act. Paragraphs 1(v) to (y) of Schedule 1 to the Football Spectators Act 1989 were inserted by sections 190(1), (2), and (6) of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. Other amendments have been made to Schedule 1 which are not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 4(3) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (c. 38) makes it an offence for a person to supply or offer to supply a controlled drug to another person, or to be concerned in that supply or offer. Section 5(2) makes it an offence for a person to have a controlled drug in their possession. Section 5(2A) was inserted by section 151 and paragraphs 1 and 6 of Schedule 17 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 and provides that section 5(2) does not apply to a “temporary class drug” under Section 2A. Section 5(3) makes it an offence for a person to have a controlled drug in their possession with the intent to supply it in contravention of section 4(1). Section 2(1) provides that controlled drugs are listed in Schedule 2 to that Act, “Class A” drugs being listed in Part I of Schedule 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2022/9780348238662/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:45:00.173541+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."
}