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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safety-of-sports-grounds-designation-amendment-order-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/828",
  "legislation_title": "The Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) (Amendment) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safety-of-sports-grounds-designation-amendment-order-2025",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nBy section 1(1) of the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 (c. 52) the Secretary of State may designate as a sports ground requiring a safety certificate under that Act any sports ground which, in the Secretary of State’s opinion, has accommodation for more than the specified number of spectators.\nBy the Safety of Sports Grounds (Accommodation of Spectators) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/499), the specified number of spectators is 5,000 in respect of those 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. Sports grounds meeting these conditions may be designated under article 2(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/661, “the 2015 Order”). The specified number of spectators in all other cases is 10,000; those sports grounds are designated under article 2(1) of, and Schedule 1 to, the 2015 Order.\nThis Order amends the 2015 Order so as to reflect the following recent changes:\nThe Stadium at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park has been renamed “London Stadium”, and the occupier is now London Stadium 185. The sports ground is used to host a variety of sporting activities, including home football matches for West Ham United Football Club;\nThe Glyndwr University Racecourse Stadium is now known as The Racecourse Ground, and is occupied only by Wrexham Association Football Club which has become a member of the Football League Limited;\nBy virtue of promotion, both Barnet Football Club and Bromley Football Club are members of the Football League Limited occupying sports grounds whose capacity exceeds (in the opinion of the Secretary of State) 5,000 spectators;\nEverton Football Club, a member of the Football Association Premier League Limited, now plays at Hill Dickinson Stadium, a sports ground whose capacity exceeds (in the opinion of the Secretary of State) 5,000 spectators. The designation in Schedule 2 to the 2015 Order for its former ground, Goodison Park, is retained because Everton Football Club remains the occupier of that ground as well;\nAs a result of relegation, the following clubs are no longer members of the Football League Limited: Carlisle United Football Club, Dagenham and Redbridge Football Club, Forest Green Rovers Football Club, Morecambe Football Club, Southend United Football Club and York City Football Club. However, as the capacity of Brunton Park (for Carlisle United FC) and Roots Hall (for Southend United FC) exceeds (in the opinion of the Secretary of State) 10,000 spectators, the effect of relegation for the purpose of the 2015 Order is that those entries move from Schedule 2 to Schedule 1 to the 2015 Order;\nThe entry in the 2015 Order for Notts County Football Club, which was specified in Schedule 1 to the 2015 Order because the capacity of Meadow Lane Stadium exceeded (in the opinion of the Secretary of State) 10,000 spectators, is moved by this Order to Schedule 2 to the 2015 Order as a result of the club being promoted to the Football League.\nAn impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/828/note",
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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."
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