# Football Governance Act 2025, Paragraph 1: Conditions for being an owner

Extent: E+W

(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person is an “owner” of a club if—
(a) the person is an individual or a registered society, and
(b) one or more of the conditions in paragraph 2 are met in relation to the person.
(2) In the case of a club that is a registered society, if there is no individual in relation to whom one or more of the conditions in paragraph 2 are met, the registered society itself is the owner of the club.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/21/schedule/1/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/football-governance-act-2025/schedule-1/paragraph-1
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