The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2013

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2013 No. 4

Sports Grounds And Sporting Events

The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2013

Made

9th January 2013

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

11th January 2013

Coming into force

9th February 2013

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 2013 and comes into force on 9th February 2013.

Amendment of the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2010

2.—(1) The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2010(2) is amended as follows.

(2) In Schedule 1 (sports grounds)—

(a) omit the following entries—

Caledonian Stadium	Inverness
Doubletree Dunblane Stadium	Stirling
Victoria Park Stadium	Dingwall;

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

Forthbank Stadium	Stirling
Global Energy Stadium	Dingwall
Tulloch Caledonian Stadium	Inverness; and

(c) for “Kynoch Stadium” substitute “Kynoch Park”.

(3) Omit paragraph 7 of Part I of Schedule 2 (classes of sporting events).

SHONA ROBISON

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

9th January 2013

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2010 (“the 2010 Order”) which was amended by the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2012. The 2010 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 designated sporting grounds in the 2010 Order to reflect changes to the names of the home grounds of football clubs which are members of the Scottish Premier League, the Scottish Football League or the Scottish Highland Football League.

Article 2(3) of this Order makes changes to the designated sporting events in the 2010 Order by omitting the entry for association football matches in Scotland where the match is part of the Olympic Games which took place in 2012.

(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 Act1998 (c.46). Section 18 has been modified by paragraph 2 of schedule 3 to the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act2010 (asp 10).

(2)

S.S.I. 2010/199 as amended byS.S.I. 2012/164.