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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/glasgow-commonwealth-games-act-2008-commencement-no-3-order-2012/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2012/261",
  "legislation_title": "The Glasgow Commonwealth Games Act 2008 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/glasgow-commonwealth-games-act-2008-commencement-no-3-order-2012",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings into force on 29th November 2012 those provisions of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games Act 2008 (“the Act”) that are specified in the Schedule to the Order.\nIn particular, the Order brings into force the following provisions—\nsection 17 which makes it an offence to tout a Commonwealth Games ticket and this applies to acts done in or outwith Scotland;\nsection 18 which provides an exception for certain advertisers etc.;\nsection 20(1) to (3) which makes provision in relation to the authorisation of ticket sales;\nsections 22 to 32 (except 30(2)) which make provision in relation to enforcement;\nsection 34(2) which provides that ticket touting offences and obstruction offences are triable only summarily;\nsection 35(2) which provides that a person convicted of a ticket touting offence or an obstruction offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale; and\nsection 36 which makes provision in relation to offences by bodies corporate etc.\nSections 43 and 47 to 51 of the Act came into force on Royal Assent which was received on 10th June 2008.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/261/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:42:49.658712+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."
}