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The Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 2000

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Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 1809

SPORTS GROUNDS AND SPORTING EVENTS

The Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 2000

Made

10th July 2000

Laid before Parliament

11th July 2000

Coming into force

1st August 2000

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1(1) and 18(2) of the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975(1), after such consultation as is mentioned in section 18(4) of that Act, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st August 2000.

Designation

2.  The sports ground specified in the Schedule to this Order (being a sports ground in England at which association football matches are played, which is occupied by a club which is a member of the Football League Limited or the Football Association Premier League Limited, and which in the opinion of the Secretary of State has accommodation for more than 5,000 spectators) is hereby designated as a sports ground requiring a safety certificate under the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975(2).

Amendment to the Safety of Sports Grounds (Rugby Football Grounds) (Designation) Order 1985

3.  In the Schedule to the Safety of Sports Grounds (Rugby Football Grounds) (Designation) Order 1985(3), the entries in respect of Thrum Hall, Halifax and Central Park, Wigan shall be omitted.

Amendment to the Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 1986

4.  In Schedule 1 to the Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 1986(4), the entry in respect of the County Ground Stadium, Exeter shall be omitted.

Chris Smith

Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

10th July 2000

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Address of Sports GroundOccupier of Sports Ground

Aggborough Stadium

Hoo Road

Kidderminster

Worcestershire

DY10 1NB

Kidderminster Football Club

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Article 2 of this Order designates the sports ground specified in the Schedule as a sports ground requiring a safety certificate under the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975.

Articles 3 and 4 of this Order vary the Orders referred to therein by omitting entries which are no longer sports grounds requiring a safety certificate under the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975.

(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)

The number 5,000 was substituted for the number in section 1(1) of the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975 for Football League grounds in England and Wales by the Safety of Sports Grounds (Accommodation of Spectators) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/499).

(3)

S.I. 1985/1064.

(4)

S.I. 1986/1296.

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