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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2003 No.1280

SPORTS GROUNDS AND SPORTING EVENTS

The Football Spectators (Seating) Order 2003

  Made 1st May 2003 
  Laid before Parliament 12th May 2003 
  Coming into force 1st August 2003 

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 11(1) to (3) of the Football Spectators Act 1989[1], and after consulting the Football Licensing Authority in accordance with section 11(4) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement
     1. This Order may be cited as the Football Spectators (Seating) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st August 2003.

Direction
     2.  - (1) The Secretary of State hereby directs the Football Licensing Authority as set out in paragraph (2) below.

    (2) When granting any licence to admit spectators[2] to the premises specified in column (1) of Schedule 1 and further identified in column (2) of that Schedule by the name of the football club of which they are the home ground, it shall include a condition imposing the requirements, as respects the seating of spectators at designated football matches[3], specified in Schedule 2.


Tessa Jowell
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

1st May 2003



SCHEDULE 1
Article 2(2)


PREMISES IN RESPECT OF WHICH A CONDITION IMPOSING REQUIREMENTS AS RESPECTS THE SEATING OF SPECTATORS AT DESIGNATED FOOTBALL MATCHES SHALL BE IMPOSED


(1) Address of the premises (2) Football club of which the premises are the home ground
Priestfield Stadium

Redfern Avenue

Gillingham

Kent

ME7 4DD

 Gillingham Football Club
Deepdale Stadium

Sir Tom Finney Way

Preston

Lancashire

PR1 6RU

 Preston North End Football Club
Bescot Stadium

Bescot Crescent

Walsall

West Midlands

WS1 4SA

 Walsall Football Club



SCHEDULE 2
Article 2(2)


REQUIREMENTS TO BE IMPOSED


     1. Only seated accommodation shall be provided for spectators at a designated football match.

     2. Spectators shall only be admitted to watch a designated football match from seated accommodation.


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order directs the Football Licensing Authority to include in any licence to admit spectators to the football grounds specified in Schedule 1 a condition imposing the requirements specified in Schedule 2 as respects the seating of spectators at designated football matches. "Designated football matches" are those association football matches designated by the Secretary of State under the powers conferred by section 1(2) of the Football Spectators Act 1989, and they include all associations football matches played at the premises specified in Schedule 1 to this Order.

Notes:

 [1] 1989 c. 37.back

[2] A "licence to admit spectators" is defined in section 1(7) of the Football Spectators Act 1989.back

[3] "Designated football match" is defined in section 1(2) of the Football Spectators Act 1989 and S.I. 2000/3331.back


ISBN 0 11 046026 X


 
© Crown copyright 2003
Prepared 16 May 2003

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