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The Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 1988

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Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1975

SPORTS GROUNDS AND SPORTING EVENTS

The Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 1988

Made

11th November 1988

Laid before Parliament

23rd November 1988

Coming into force

1st January 1989

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by sections 1(1) and 18(2) of the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975(1), and after such consultation as is mentioned in section 18(4) of that Act, I hereby make the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st January 1989.

2.  The sports grounds at —

(a)Glanford Park, Doncaster Road, Scunthorpe; and

(b)Moss Rose Ground, London Road, Macclesfield,

(being sports grounds each of which in the opinion of the Secretary of State has accommodation for more than 10,000 spectators) are hereby designated as sports grounds requiring safety certificates under the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975.

3.  In the Schedule to the Safety of Sports Grounds (Association Football Grounds) (Designation) Order 1985(2), the entry in respect of the Old Show Ground, Scunthorpe shall be omitted.

Douglas Hurd

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

11th November 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Article 2 of this Order designates the sports grounds specified therein as sports grounds requiring safety certificates under the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975. That Act was amended by Schedule 2 to the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 (which was brought into force on 1st January 1988 by S.I. 1987/1762) so that references to sports grounds were substituted for the references to sports stadia.

Article 3 varies the Order referred to therein by omitting an entry in respect of a place that is no longer a sports ground.

(1)

1975 c. 52; section 1(1) was amended by Schedule 2 to the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 (c. 27).

(2)

S.I. 1985/1063.

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