{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-offences-act-1991/section-1A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-offences-act-1991/section-1A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/19",
  "legislation_title": "Football (Offences) Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-offences-act-1991",
  "path": "section/1A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1A",
  "heading": "Unauthorised entry",
  "text": "(1) A person (“P”) commits an offence if—\n(a) P enters, or attempts to enter, premises for the purpose of attending a designated football match, and\n(b) at the time of entry or attempted entry, P does not have a match ticket for the match that P is eligible to use.\n(2) It is a defence to prove that P had lawful authority or lawful excuse for entering, or attempting to enter, the premises.\n(3) It is a defence to prove that—\n(a) P entered, or attempted to enter, the premises through an entry point normally used by spectators,\n(b) at the time of entry or attempted entry, P had something that they reasonably believed was a match ticket for the match, and\n(c) the thing that P had—\n(i) was not a match ticket for the match, or\n(ii) was a match ticket for the match but P was not eligible to use it.\n(4) In this section—\n“match ticket” means a ticket or other thing (whether in physical or electronic form) which authorises a person to enter premises for the purpose of attending a designated football match;\n“premises” includes any place.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 1A inserted (22.3.2026) by Unauthorised Entry to Football Matches Act 2026 (c. 1), ss. 1, 2(2); S.I. 2026/288, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/19/section/1A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:39:15.646949+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."
}