{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sporting-events-control-of-alcohol-etc-act-1985/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sporting-events-control-of-alcohol-etc-act-1985/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/57",
  "legislation_title": "Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc.) Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sporting-events-control-of-alcohol-etc-act-1985",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Penalties for offences.",
  "text": "A person guilty of an offence under this Act shall be liable on summary conviction—\n(a) in the case of an offence under section 1(2) or 1A(2), to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale,\n(b) in the case of an offence under section 1(3) , 1A(3), 2(1) or 2A(1), to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or both, . . .\n(c) in the case of an offence under section 1(4) , 1A(4) or 2(2), to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words inserted by Public Order Act 1986 (c. 64, SIF 39:2), s. 40(1), Sch. 1 para. 7(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words inserted by Public Order Act 1986 (c. 64, SIF 39:2), s. 40(1), Sch. para. 7(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(b) substituted (24.11.2005) by Licensing Act 2003 (c. 17), s. 201(2), Sch. 6 para. 100(a) (with ss. 2(3), 15(2), 195); S.I. 2005/3056, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word repealed by Public Order Act 1986 (c. 64, SIF 39:2), s. 40(3), Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word inserted by Public Order Act 1986 (c. 64, SIF 39:2), s. 40(1), Sch. 1 para. 7(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 8(d)(e) repealed (24.11.2005) by Licensing Act 2003 (c. 17), s. 201(2), Sch. 6 para. 100(b), Sch. 7 (with ss. 2(3), 15(2), 195); S.I. 2005/3056, art. 2(2) (with art. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/44",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/57/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:57.353509+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}