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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-governance-act-2025-commencement-no-3-regulations-2026/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/477",
  "legislation_title": "The Football Governance Act 2025 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2026",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations bring into force specified provisions of the Football Governance Act 2025 (c. 21) (“the Act”) on 5th May 2026. They are the third set of commencement Regulations made under the Act. Certain provisions came into force on Royal Assent by virtue of section 100(2) of the Act. A number of other provisions were brought into force by the Football Governance Act (Commencement No. 1) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1134) and the Football Governance Act (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1286).\nRegulation 2(1)(a) brings into force a number of provisions in Part 4 of the Act (owners and officers of regulated clubs: suitability etc) which provides for the Independent Football Regulator to determine the suitability of persons to be owners and officers of regulated clubs and to take action to ensure the removal of owners and officers who are not suitable.\nRegulation 2(1)(b) commences a number of provisions in Part 5 of the Act (duties on clubs and competition organisers etc). Regulation 2(1)(b)(iii) will bring into force section 47 (duty not to appoint administrator without approval) of the Act. As section 47 applies to a body to which section 46(2) applies, the latter provision is commenced at sub-paragraph (2)(b)(ii) to ensure that section 47(2) of the Act can operate effectively.\nRegulation 2(1)(c) brings into force provisions in Part 7 of the Act (investigatory powers etc) including the provisions of Schedule 7 specified in regulation 2(2).\nAn impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as a full impact assessment was published in relation to the provisions in the Football Governance Bill. That impact assessment can be obtained online at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/football-governance-bill-2024-supporting-documents or by writing to the Department for Culture Media and Sport, 100 Parliament Street, SW1A 2BQ, London, United Kingdom.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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