# Football Governance Act 2025, Paragraph 9: Suspension or revocation of operating licence

Extent: E+W

(1) The IFR may—
(a) suspend the club’s operating licence, or
(b) revoke the club’s operating licence from a day specified by the IFR.
(2) Where the IFR suspends an operating licence—
(a) it must specify in a decision notice under section 77 the day on which the suspension takes effect, and
(b) it must specify in that notice either—
(i) the period for which the operating licence will be suspended, or
(ii) that the operating licence is to be suspended until some event specified in the notice occurs (which may be the giving of a further notice by the IFR).
(3) Where a decision notice under section 77 is given during a football season, the date specified in that notice for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(a) may not be a date before the end of that season.
(4) Nothing in this paragraph prevents the IFR from—
(a) re-exercising the power in this paragraph to suspend an operating licence after a previous suspension of the licence has come to an end, or
(b) revoking an operating licence after a suspension of the licence has come to an end.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/21/schedule/9/paragraph/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/football-governance-act-2025/schedule-9/paragraph-9
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