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Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Act 1985 in Scotland

1985 c. 57 · Enacted 25 July 1985 · Extends to England, Wales and Scotland

Not fully up to date. 3 changes made by later legislation have not yet been written into this text, which is revised to 1 October 2006.

See the changes not yet applied
ProvisionChangeMade by
s. 2(1A)repealedLicensing Act 2003 Sch. 6 para. 98 Sch. 7
s. 5ArepealedLicensing Act 2003 Sch. 6 para. 99(c) Sch. 7
s. 8(b)words substitutedCriminal Justice Act 2003 Sch. 26 para. 36

An Act to make provision for punishing those who cause or permit intoxicating liquor to be carried on public service vehicles and railway passenger vehicles carrying passengers to or from designated sporting events or who possess intoxicating liquor on such vehicles and those who possess intoxicating liquor or certain articles capable of causing injury at designated sports grounds during the period of designated sporting events, for punishing drunkenness on such vehicles and, during the period of designated sporting events, at such grounds and, where licensed premises or premises in respect of which a club is registered (for the purposes of the Licensing Act 1964) are within designated sports grounds, to make provision for regulating the sale or supply of intoxicating liquor and for the closure of bars.

[25th July 1985]

I1Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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Commencement

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Act wholly in force at Royal Assent.

Contents

  1. 10Amendment of Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980.
  2. 11Short title and extent.
  3. 1Paragraph 1 Repealed
  4. 2Paragraph 2 Repealed
  5. 3Paragraph 3 Repealed
  6. 4Paragraph 4 Repealed
  7. 5Paragraph 5 Repealed
  8. 6Paragraph 6 Repealed

10Amendment of Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980.

Part V of the M1Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980 shall be amended as follows—

(a)

in section 68(1), after paragraph (b) there shall be inserted—

“(c)

a sporting event, or a class of sporting event, taking place outside Great Britain:”;

(b)

in section 69, after the words “public service vehicle” there shall be inserted the words “or railway passenger vehicle” and after the word “passengers” there shall be inserted the words “for the whole or part of a journey”;

(c)

in section 77, at the end of the definition of “designated” there shall be added the words “and ”designated sporting event’ includes a sporting event designated, or of a class designated, under section 9(3)(a) of the Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Act 1985”; and

(d)

in section 77, after the definition of “public service vehicle” there shall be inserted the following definition—

““railway passenger vehicle” has the same meaning as in the Licensing (Scotland) Act 1976”.

11Short title and extent.

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Act 1985.

(2)

Sections 1 to 9 of and the Schedule to this Act extend to England and Wales only.

(3)

This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.

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