Section 3 Applications for certificates.

If a local authority receive an application for a safety certificate for a designated F1sports ground in their area, it shall be their duty to determine whether the applicant is a person likely to be in a position to prevent contravention of the terms and conditions of a certificate; and such a person is referred to in this Act as a “qualified person”.

If a local authority determine that an applicant is a qualified person—

The local authority shall send a copy of an application for a safety certificate for a sports ground to F2the chief officer of police and F3where the local authority is in F4Wales, Greater London or a metropolitan county, the fire authority or, in any other case, the building authority for the area in which it —

for the area in which the sports ground is situated, and shall consult them about the terms and conditions to be included in the certificate.

The local authority may by notice in writing require an applicant for a safety certificate to furnish them within such reasonable time as they may specify in the notice with such information and such plans as they consider necessary to enable them to determine the terms and conditions which ought to be included in any certificate issued in response to his application.

If an applicant for a safety certificate fails to comply with a requirement under subsection (4) above within the time specified by the local authority, or within such further time as they may allow, he shall be deemed to have withdrawn his application.