# The Safety of Sports Grounds Regulations 1987, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations, which apply throughout Great Britain (except the Isles of Scilly), replace the Safety of Sports Grounds Regulations 1976 (“the 1976 Regulations”) and the Safety of Sports Grounds (Amendment) Regulations 1986 (which apply in England and Wales, except the Isles of Scilly) and the Safety of Sports Grounds (Scotland) Regulations 1976 (“the 1976 Scottish Regulations”).
Regulations 8 to 13 of the 1976 Regulations and regulations 9 and 10 of the 1976 Scottish Regulations made provision for the procedure for appeals to the Secretary of State in respect of safety certificates under section 5 of the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 (“the 1975 Act”). When the amendments made by section 22 of the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 (“the 1987 Act”) come into force, those appeals will be made to magistrates' courts in England and Wales and by summary application in Scotland and regulations 8 to 13 of the 1976 Regulations and regulations 9 and 10 of the 1976 Scottish Regulations will no longer be necessary. By virtue of the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/1762), Part II of the 1987 Act (in which section 22 is contained) comes into force on 1st January 1988, the same date as the coming into force of these Regulations. Accordingly, these Regulations no longer include provision corresponding to regulations 8 to 13 of the 1976 Regulations and regulations 9 and 10 of the 1976 Scottish Regulations (the enabling power for which is, in any event, replaced by section 22 (7) of the 1987 Act) but provide instead (in regulation 6) for the time within which an appeal must be brought before a magistrates' court in England and Wales or by summary application in Scotland.
These Regulations also differ from the 1976 Regulations and the 1976 Scottish Regulations in that they no longer prescribe a minimum time before the event for which the application is made for the submission of an application for a special safety certificate. They also do not require the local authority to have made decisions in respect of such applications by specified periods.
Regulation 5 of these Regulations requires certain notices to be given to interested parties (as defined) and a newspaper notice to be published. Regulation 8 of these Regulations differs from regulation 14 of the 1976 Regulations and regulation 11 of the 1976 Scottish Regulations in that it allows local authorities to charge fees in respect of applications for the replacement and transfer of safety certificates as well as for applications for their issue and amendment.
These Regulations also differ from the 1976 Regulations (as amended) and the 1976 Scottish Regulations in that they refer only to sports grounds and not to sports stadia in consequence of the amendments made to the 1975 Act by section 19 of, and Schedule 2 to, the 1987 Act (which provisions also come into force on 1st January 1988 by virtue of the Commencement Order referred to above).
Regulation 7 of these Regulations is a new provision which prescribes the period within which appeals in respect of prohibition notices (and amendments to those notices) issued under section 10 of the 1975 Act (as substituted by section 23 (1) of the 1987 Act) must be brought under section 10A (1) and (2) of the 1975 Act (as inserted by section 24 of the 1987 Act).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1941/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/safety-of-sports-grounds-regulations-1987/note
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