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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/violent-crime-reduction-act-2006/section-63",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/38",
  "legislation_title": "Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/violent-crime-reduction-act-2006",
  "path": "section/63",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Removal of sports grounds etc. from private security industry regulation",
  "text": "In section 4 of the Private Security Industry Act 2001 (c. 12) (exemptions from licensing requirement) after subsection (5) insert—\n“(6) A relevant employee who engages in licensable conduct shall not be guilty of an offence under section 3 in respect of that conduct if it is carried out in connection with the use of a certified sports ground or certified sports stand for purposes for which its safety certificate has effect.\n(7) An employee for a visiting team who engages in licensable conduct shall not be guilty of an offence under section 3 in respect of that conduct if—\n(a) it is carried out in connection with the use of a certified sports ground or certified sports stand for purposes for which its safety certificate has effect; and\n(b) that visiting team is involved in the activities for which the ground is being used, or which the stand is being used to view.\n(8) In subsection (7) a reference to a person being an employee for a visiting team is a reference to his being a relevant employee in relation to the visitors' ground, or in relation to a certified sports stand contained in the visitors' premises.\n(9) In this section “a relevant employee”, in relation to a certified sports ground or certified sports stand, means a person employed by—\n(a) the holder of its safety certificate;\n(b) a person who manages the ground or stand or occupies the premises where it is or owns an interest in those premises;\n(c) a company which is in the same group as a company falling within paragraph (b).\n(10) In this section a reference to the use of a certified sports ground for purposes for which the safety certificate has effect is a reference to—\n(a) the use of the ground for activities specified in a general safety certificate in force in respect of the use of that ground; or\n(b) the use of the ground, on an occasion specified in a special safety certificate which is so in force, for activities specified in that certificate.\n(11) In this section a reference to the use of a certified sports stand for purposes for which the safety certificate has effect is a reference to—\n(a) the use of the stand for viewing activities specified in a general safety certificate in force in respect of the use of that stand; or\n(b) the use of the stand, on an occasion specified in a special safety certificate which is so in force, for viewing activities specified in that certificate.\n(12) In this section—\n“certified sports ground” means a sports ground in respect of which a safety certificate is in force;\n“certified sports stand” means a sports stand in respect of which a safety certificate is in force;\n“company”, “holding company” and “subsidiary” have the same meanings as in section 736 of the Companies Act 1985 (c. 6);\n“group”, in relation to a company, means a holding company and all of its subsidiaries;\n“safety certificate”, “general safety certificate” and “special safety certificate”—\n(a)in relation to a sports ground, have the same meanings as in the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 (see sections 1(4) and 17(1) of that Act); and\n(b)in relation to a sports stand, have the same meanings as in Part 3 of the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 (see section 26(2) and (11) of that Act);\n“sports ground” has the same meaning as in that Act of 1975 (see section 17(1) of that Act);\n“sports stand” means a stand within the meaning of Part 3 of that Act of 1987 (see section 26(11) of that Act);\n“visiting team”, in relation to a certified sports ground (“the home ground”) or a certified sports stand contained in any premises (“the home premises”) means a team which uses as its base, or as one of its bases, any premises which are either—\n(a)a certified sports ground which is not the home ground (“the visitors' ground”); or\n(b)premises which are not the home premises and which contain a certified sports stand (“the visitors' premises”);\n“visitors' ground” and “visitors' premises”, in relation to a visiting team, have the meanings given by the previous definition.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/38/section/63",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:14:02.750793+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."
}