{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-order-domestic-football-banning-order-1999/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-order-domestic-football-banning-order-1999/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2460",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Order (Domestic Football Banning) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-order-domestic-football-banning-order-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nPart IV of the Public Order Act 1986 (Exclusion Orders) is extensively amended by sections 6 to 8 of the Football (Offences and Disorder) Act 1999. Amongst other changes, the exclusion order is renamed the domestic football banning order.\nSection 34 requires a court making a domestic football banning order to provide a copy of the order to the person to whom the order relates, the chief officer of police for the area in which the offence was committed and any prescribed person.\nArticle 3 of this Order prescribes the Chief Executive of the Football Association and the Football Banning Orders Authority for the purposes of section 34.\nThe effect of a domestic football banning order is to prohibit entry to any premises for the purpose of attending any prescribed football match. Article 4 prescribes the association football matches for the purposes of section 36.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2460/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:58:22.511138+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."
}