{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-spectators-act-1989/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-spectators-act-1989/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/37",
  "legislation_title": "Football Spectators Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-spectators-act-1989",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Information.",
  "text": "(1) Where a court makes a banning order the designated officer for the court (in the case of a magistrates’ court) or the appropriate officer (in the case of the Crown Court)—\n(a) shall give a copy of it to the person to whom it relates;\n(b) shall (as soon as reasonably practicable) send a copy of it to the enforcing authority and to any prescribed person;\n(c) shall (as soon as reasonably practicable) send a copy of it to the police station (addressed to the officer responsible for the police station) at which the person subject to the order is to report initially; and\n(d) in a case where the person subject to the order is detained in legal custody, shall (as soon as reasonably practicable) send a copy of it to the person in whose custody he is detained.\n(2) Where a court terminates a banning order under section 14H above, the designated officer for the court (in the case of a magistrates’ court) or the appropriate officer (in the case of the Crown Court)—\n(a) shall give a copy of the terminating order to the person to whom the banning order relates;\n(b) shall (as soon as reasonably practicable) send a copy of it to the enforcing authority and to any prescribed person; and\n(c) in a case where the person subject to the banning order is detained in legal custody, shall (as soon as reasonably practicable) send a copy of the terminating order to the person in whose custody he is detained.\n(3) Where a person subject to a banning order is released from custody and, in the case of a person who has not reported initially to a police station, is released more than five days before the expiry of the banning order, the person in whose custody he is shall (as soon as reasonably practicable) give notice of his release to the enforcing authority.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 18 substituted (28.8.2000) by 2000 c. 25, s. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 10; S.I. 2000/2125, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(1) substituted (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), s. 110(1), Sch. 8 para. 333(2); S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(1)(b) inserted (28.8.2000) by 2000 c. 25, s. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 14(a)(i); S.I. 2000/2125, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(1)(d) substituted (28.8.2000) by 2000 c. 25, s. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 14(a)(ii); S.I. 2000/2125, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(2) substituted (28.8.2000) by 2000 c. 25, s. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 14(b)(i); S.I. 2000/2125, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(2) substituted (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), s. 110(1), Sch. 8 para. 333(3); S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(2)(b) inserted (28.8.2000) by 2000 c. 25, s. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 14(b)(ii); S.I. 2000/2125, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(2)(c) substituted (28.8.2000) by 2000 c. 25, s. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 14(b)(iii); S.I. 2000/2125, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "S. 18(3) substituted (28.8.2000) by 2000 c. 25, s. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 14(c); S.I. 2000/2125, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "S. 18(4) repealed (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), s. 110(1), Sch. 8 para. 333(4), Sch. 10; S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "S. 18(5) omitted (3.12.2012) by virtue of Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (c. 10), s. 151(1), Sch. 10 para. 6(b); S.I. 2012/2906, art. 2(h)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/37/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:45:53.047524+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."
}