The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2023 No. 257

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Scottish Statutory Instruments

2023 No. 257

Sports Grounds And Sporting Events

The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2023

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 1995( 1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

1.  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.

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

2.—(1) The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2014( 2) is amended as follows.

(2) In schedule 1 (sports grounds)—

(a) omit the following entries—

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 ,

(b) insert the following entries at the appropriate places—

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 .

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.

( 1)

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).

( 2)

S.S.I. 2014/5, relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2014/374, S.S.I. 2022/86and S.S.I. 2022/263.


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