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(1)Subject to subsection (2) below, a licence to be known as an “indoor sports entertainment licence” shall be required for the use of premises as a place of public sports entertainment.
(2)Subsection (1) above shall not apply to any occasion on which the entertainment of the public by the sport is not the principal purpose for which the premises are used but this provision does not apply in relation to a sports complex.
(3)Without prejudice to paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to this Act, a licensing authority may attach conditions to an indoor sports entertainment licence—
(a)restricting the use of the premises to a specified kind or specified kinds of public sports entertainment;
(b)limiting the number of persons to be admitted to the premises;
(c)fixing the days and times when the premises may be open for the purposes of public sports entertainment.
(4)In this section—
“premises” means any permanent or temporary building and any tent or inflatable structure and includes a part of a building where the building is a sports complex but does not include a part of any other building;
“public sports entertainment” means any sporting event to which the public are invited as spectators;
“sporting event” means any contest, exhibition or display of any sport;
“sports complex” means a building—
(a)which provides accommodation and facilities for both those engaging in sport and spectators; and
(b)the parts of which are so arranged that one or more sports can be engaged in simultaneously in different parts of the building; and
“sport” includes any game in which physical skill is the predominant factor and any form of physical recreation which is also engaged in for purposes of competition or display, except dancing (in any form).]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 41A inserted by Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 (c. 27, SIF 81:2), s. 44(1)
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