{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-spectators-prescription-order-2022/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-spectators-prescription-order-2022/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/617",
  "legislation_title": "The Football Spectators (Prescription) Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-spectators-prescription-order-2022",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Prescribed connection with a football organisation",
  "text": "(1) A person has a prescribed connection with a football organisation for the purposes of Schedule 1 to the 1989 Act (offences which are relevant offences for the purposes of Part 1 of the 1989 Act) where the person—\n(a) has a connection prescribed by paragraph (2)(a), (b), (c) or (d),\n(b) had, at any time in the 6 months before the date of the offence, a connection prescribed by paragraph (2)(a), (b) or (c), or\n(c) had, at any time in the 14 days before the date of the offence, a connection prescribed by paragraph 2(d).\n(2) The following connections are prescribed—\n(a) being a player, manager, coach, physiotherapist or other member of the matchday pitchside staff of a relevant team;\n(b) being a referee, assistant referee, video assistant referee, assistant video referee, reserve official, fourth official, or other match official, who officiates a regulated football match involving a relevant team;\n(c) being an officer of a club which is a regulated football organisation;\n(d) being a journalist or other broadcast staff covering a regulated football match involving a relevant team or otherwise reporting or commentating on a relevant team or player of such team.\n(3) In this article—\n“manager” means the official responsible for selecting a relevant team;\n“officer” means—\n(a) in relation to a club which is a body corporate, a director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the club, or a person purporting to act in any such capacity, or\n(b) in relation to a club which is an unincorporated association other than a partnership, a person who is concerned in the management or control of the club or purports to act in the capacity of a person so concerned.\n“player” means any person who plays or is eligible to play for, or is subject to any suspension from playing for, a relevant team;\n“relevant team” means—\n(a) a team representing a club which is a regulated football organisation, or\n(b) a national team which is a regulated football organisation.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5 in force at 1.7.2022, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/617/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:59:19.690532+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."
}