Football Spectators Act 1989

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(1)Where a court makes a restriction order, the clerk of the court (in the case of a magistrates' court) or the appropriate officer (in the case of the Crown Court)—

(a)shall give a copy of it to the person to whom it relates;

(b)shall (as soon as reasonably practicable) send a copy of it to the enforcing authority;

(c)shall (as soon as reasonably practicable) send a copy of it to the police station (addressed to the officer responsible for the police station) at which the person subject to the order is to report initially; and

(d)in a case where the person subject to the order is sentenced by the court to or is serving a term of imprisonment, shall (as soon as reasonably practicable) send a copy of it to the governor of the prison or other person to whose custody he will be committed or in whose custody he is, as the case may be.

(2)Where a court terminates a restriction order under section 17 above, the clerk of the court (in the case of a magistrates' court) or the appropriate officer (in the case of the Crown Court)—

(a)shall give a copy of the terminating order to the person to whom the restriction order relates;

(b)shall (as soon as reasonably practicable) send a copy of it to the enforcing authority; and

(c)in a case where the person subject to the restriction order is serving a term of imprisonment, shall (as soon as reasonably practicable) send a copy of the terminating order to the governor of the prison or other person in whose custody he is, as the case may be.

(3)Where a person subject to a restriction order is discharged from prison and, in the case of a person who has not reported initially to a police station, is discharged more than five days before the expiry of the restriction order, the governor of the prison or person in whose custody he is, as the case may be, shall (as soon as reasonably practicable) give notice of his discharge to the enforcing authority.

(4)References in this section to the clerk of a magistrates' court shall be construed in accordance with section 141 of the [1980 c. 43.] Magistrates' Courts Act 1980, reading references to that Act as references to this section.