The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2002

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 382

SPORTS GROUNDS AND SPORTING EVENTS

The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2002

Made

20th August 2002

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

22nd August 2002

Coming into force

21st September 2002

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 18 of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2002 and shall come into force on 21st September 2002.

Amendment of the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 1998

2.  Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 1998(2) shall be amended by inserting in that Part the following names in the appropriate places in alphabetical order:–

• “Harlaw Park, Inverurie”; and

• “Raydale Park, Gretna”.

MIKE WATSON

A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

20th August 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/2314) which designates the sports grounds, the classes of sporting events played at those grounds and the classes of sporting events outside Great Britain for the purposes of Part II of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 39). As a result of the amendment, Harlaw Park, Inverurie and Raydale Park, Gretna, become designated sports grounds.

(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.I. 1998/2314, amended by S.S.I. 2001/209.