{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uefa-european-championship-scotland-act-2026/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uefa-european-championship-scotland-act-2026/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2026/4",
  "legislation_title": "UEFA European Championship (Scotland) Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uefa-european-championship-scotland-act-2026",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Ban on ticket touting",
  "text": "(1) It is an offence to tout a Championship ticket (“the touting offence”).\n(2) A person touts a Championship ticket if the person does any act falling within subsection (3)—\n(a) in relation to the sale, or proposed sale, of a Championship ticket for an amount exceeding the ticket’s face value, or\n(b) with a view to making a profit.\n(3) Acts which fall within this subsection are—\n(a) selling a Championship ticket,\n(b) offering to sell a Championship ticket,\n(c) exposing a Championship ticket for sale,\n(d) advertising that a Championship ticket is available for purchase,\n(e) making a Championship ticket available for sale by another person, and\n(f) giving away (or offering to give away) a Championship ticket on condition that the person given the ticket—\n(i) pays a booking fee or other charge, or\n(ii) acquires some other goods or services.\n(4) The touting offence does not apply in relation to acts falling within subsection (3) done by—\n(a) UEFA, or\n(b) a person acting in accordance with an authorisation granted by UEFA.\n(5) The amount payable for a Championship ticket is to be treated as including—\n(a) the amount of any booking fee or other charge imposed as a condition of sale,\n(b) the amount payable for any other goods or services which are to be acquired as a condition of sale, and\n(c) the market value of any goods or services received in exchange for the ticket.\n(6) The reference in subsection (2)(b) to making a profit is, where the act is done by a person other than the person disposing of the ticket, to be read as a reference to assisting the person disposing of the ticket to make or attempt to make a profit.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 39(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 20.9.2026 by S.S.I. 2026/257, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2026/4/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:48.923987+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."
}