{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safety-of-sports-grounds-designation-amendment-order-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1556",
  "legislation_title": "The Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) (Amendment) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safety-of-sports-grounds-designation-amendment-order-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Sports Grounds And Sporting Events\nMade 17th July 2015\nLaid before Parliament 21st July 2015\nComing into force 1st October 2015\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(1) and 18(2) of the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 and section 14A of the Interpretation Act 1978.\nThe Secretary of State is of the opinion that the conditions in section 1(1) of the Safety of Sports Ground Act 1975 are satisfied.\nIn accordance with section 18(4) of that Act, he has consulted with such persons and bodies of persons as appear to him requisite.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 52; section 1(1) was amended by Schedule 2 to the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 (c. 27). The functions of the Secretary of State were, so far as exercisable in relation to Scotland, transferred to Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1978 c. 30; section 14A of the Interpretation Act 1978 was inserted by section 59 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 c. 24."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "By section 1(1) of the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975, the Secretary of State may by order designate as a sports ground requiring a safety certificate under that Act any sports ground which, in his opinion, has accommodation for more than the specified number of spectators. By the Safety of Sports Grounds (Accommodation of Spectators) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/499), the specified number of spectators is 5,000 for sports grounds in England and Wales at which association football matches are played and which are occupied by a club that is a member of the Football League Limited or the Football Association Premier League Limited. The specified number of spectators for all other purposes is 10,000."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1556/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}