{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safety-of-sports-grounds-designation-order-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1975",
  "legislation_title": "The Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/safety-of-sports-grounds-designation-order-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nArticle 2 of this Order designates the sports grounds specified therein as sports grounds requiring safety certificates under the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975. That Act was amended by Schedule 2 to the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 (which was brought into force on 1st January 1988 by S.I. 1987/1762) so that references to sports grounds were substituted for the references to sports stadia.\nArticle 3 varies the Order referred to therein by omitting an entry in respect of a place that is no longer a sports ground.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1975/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."
}