{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-spectators-seating-order-2022/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-spectators-seating-order-2022/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/728",
  "legislation_title": "The Football Spectators (Seating) Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/football-spectators-seating-order-2022",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Direction",
  "text": "The Secretary of State directs the Sports Grounds Safety Authority to include a condition imposing the requirements as respects the seating of spectators at designated football matches specified in Schedule 1 in any licence to admit spectators to premises specified in Schedule 2.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 25.7.2022, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 1(6A) of the Football Spectators Act 1989 defines “the licensing authority” as the Sports Grounds Safety Authority, and was inserted by paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 2 to the Sports Grounds Safety Authority Act 2011 (c. 6)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "For the meaning of “designated football match” see section 1(2) of the Football Spectators Act 1989 and article 2 of S.I. 2000/3331."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "“Licence to admit spectators” is defined in section 1(7) of the Football Spectators Act 1989."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/728/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:58:12.983864+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."
}