The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2023
S.S.I. 2023/257 · Made 7 September 2023
Sports Grounds And Sporting Events
Made 7th September 2023
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 11th September 2023
Coming into force 6th November 2023
The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 18 of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995f1 and all other powers enabling them to do so.
Annotations to the whole text
Footnotes
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1995 c. 39. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46). Section 18 has been modified by paragraph 2 of schedule 3 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10).
Contents
- 1Citation and commencement
- 2Amendment of the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2014
- Signature
- Explanatory note
1Citation and commencement
This Order may be cited as the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2023 and comes into force on 6 November 2023.
2Amendment of the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2014
The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2014f1 is amended as follows.
In schedule 1 (sports grounds)—
omit the following entries—
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BT Murrayfield Stadium Edinburgh Cliftonhill Stadium Coatbridge East End Park Dunfermline East Peffermill Edinburgh Foys Stadium Hamilton Islecroft Stadium Dalbeattie K Park East Kilbride Lochburn Park Glasgow Meadow Park Castle Douglas Netherdale 3G Arena Galashiels Penny Cars Stadium Airdrie Tulloch Caledonian Stadium Inverness Yarrow Park Selkirk ”,
insert the following entries at the appropriate places—
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3G Arena Galashiels Caledonian Stadium Inverness Edinburgh University Sports Union Edinburgh Excelsior Stadium Airdrie KDM Group East End Park Dunfermline K Park Training Academy East Kilbride New Douglas Park Hamilton Prestonfield Linlithgow Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium Edinburgh ”.
Signature
MAREE TODD
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
7th September 2023
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2014 (“the 2014 Order”). The 2014 Order designates sports grounds, classes of sporting events played at those grounds and classes of sporting events outside Great Britain for the purposes of Part II of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995 (sporting events: control of alcohol etc.).
Article 2(2) of this Order makes changes to the list of sports grounds designated in the 2014 Order, to reflect changes to the membership of the football leagues for which the home grounds of member clubs were designated in the 2014 Order.