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The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2025

S.S.I. 2025/262 · Made 16 September 2025

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Sports Grounds And Sporting Events

Made 16th September 2025

Laid before the Scottish Parliament 18th September 2025

Coming into force 13th November 2025

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by section 18(1) of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995f1 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

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

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Amendment of the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2014
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2025 and comes into force on 13 November 2025.

2Amendment of the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2014

(1)

The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2014f1 is amended as follows.

(2)

In schedule 1 (sports grounds)—

(a)

omit the following entries—

“

3G ArenaGalashiels
Ainslie Park StadiumEdinburgh
Bayview StadiumMethil
Cappielow ParkGreenock
Dens Park StadiumDundee
Excelsior StadiumAirdrie
Firhill StadiumGlasgow
Gayfield ParkArbroath
K Park Training AcademyEast Kilbride
Lesser HampdenGlasgow
moreroom.com StadiumDumbarton
PrestonfieldLinlithgow
Simple Digital ArenaPaisley
Stair ParkStranraer
Station ParkForfar
Tony Macaroni ArenaLivingston

”,

(b)

insert the following entries at the appropriate places—

“

3G Arena NetherdaleGalashiels
The Albert Bartlett StadiumAirdrie
The Alpha Projects Stadium at Station ParkForfar
Cappielow Park Supported by Dalrada TechnologyGreenock
The City StadiumGlasgow
Forthbank StadiumStirling
Ochilview ParkStenhousemuir
The Eco Gen Stadium at Stair ParkStranraer
The Greenversity Stadium at Gayfield ParkArbroath
Holm ParkClydebank
Home of the Set Fare ArenaLivingston
Marbill Coaches StadiumDumbarton
MGM Timber Bayview StadiumMethil
Prestonfield StadiumLinlithgow
The Ross Commercial Finance K Park StadiumEast Kilbride
ScotFoam Stadium at Dens ParkDundee
The SMISA StadiumPaisley
Vanloq Community StadiumEdinburgh
The Wyre Stadium at FirhillGlasgow

”.

Signature

MAREE TODD

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House

Edinburgh

16th September 2025

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.