# Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006, Section 63: Removal of sports grounds etc. from private security industry regulation

Extent: E+W

In section 4 of the Private Security Industry Act 2001 (c. 12) (exemptions from licensing requirement) after subsection (5) insert—
“(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.
(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—
(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
(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.
(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.
(9) In this section “a relevant employee”, in relation to a certified sports ground or certified sports stand, means a person employed by—
(a) the holder of its safety certificate;
(b) a person who manages the ground or stand or occupies the premises where it is or owns an interest in those premises;
(c) a company which is in the same group as a company falling within paragraph (b).
(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—
(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
(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.
(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—
(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
(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.
(12) In this section—
“certified sports ground” means a sports ground in respect of which a safety certificate is in force;
“certified sports stand” means a sports stand in respect of which a safety certificate is in force;
“company”, “holding company” and “subsidiary” have the same meanings as in section 736 of the Companies Act 1985 (c. 6);
“group”, in relation to a company, means a holding company and all of its subsidiaries;
“safety certificate”, “general safety certificate” and “special safety certificate”—
(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
(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);
“sports ground” has the same meaning as in that Act of 1975 (see section 17(1) of that Act);
“sports stand” means a stand within the meaning of Part 3 of that Act of 1987 (see section 26(11) of that Act);
“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—
(a)a certified sports ground which is not the home ground (“the visitors' ground”); or
(b)premises which are not the home premises and which contain a certified sports stand (“the visitors' premises”);
“visitors' ground” and “visitors' premises”, in relation to a visiting team, have the meanings given by the previous definition.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/38/section/63 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/violent-crime-reduction-act-2006/section-63
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