In Schedule 1 to the Football Spectators Act 1989 (football banning orders: relevant offences), after paragraph 1(z) insert—

“z1

any offence under section 179 (false communications) or 181 (threatening communications) of the Online Safety Act 2023—

(i)

which does not fall within paragraph (d), (e), (m), (n), (r) or (s),

(ii)

as respects which the court has stated that the offence is aggravated by hostility of any of the types mentioned in section 66(1) of the Sentencing Code (racial hostility etc), and

(iii)

as respects which the court makes a declaration that the offence related to a football match, to a football organisation or to a person whom the accused knew or believed to have a prescribed connection with a football organisation.”