The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2007

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 324

SPORTS GROUNDS AND SPORTING EVENTS

The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2007

Made

7th June 2007

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

8th June 2007

Coming into force

2nd July 2007

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

1.  This Order may be cited as the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2007 and shall come into force on 2nd July 2007.

Amendment of Designation of Sports Grounds and Sporting Events

2.  The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2004(2) is amended as follows–

(a) in article 2 omit paragraph (c);

(b) in Part I of Schedule 1–

(i) omit the entry for Bayview Stadium;

(ii) after the entry for Mosset Park insert–

“New Bayview Park

Methil”; and

(c) in Schedule 2 omit Part II.

KENNY MACASKILL

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

7th June 2007

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2004 by removing from designation Senior Men’s International Rugby Union Matches played at Murrayfield Stadium and Hampden Park for the purposes of Part II of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995 and changing the name of the sports ground at Methil from Bayview Stadium to New Bayview Park.

(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).

(2)

S.S.I. 2004/356.