The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2022

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2022 No. 86

Sports Grounds And Sporting Events

The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2022

Made

8th March 2022

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

10th March 2022

Coming into force

5th May 2022

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 2022 and comes into force on 5 May 2022.

Amendment of the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2014

2.—(1) The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2014(2) is amended as follows.

(2) In schedule 1 (sports grounds)—

(a) omit the following entries—

“Allan Park	Cove
The Bet Butler Stadium	Dumbarton
Energy Assets Arena	Livingston
Excelsior Stadium	Airdrie
New Douglas Park	Hamilton
Pennypit Park	Prestonpans
Rugby Park	Kilmarnock
St Mirren Park	Paisley
Spartans Academy, Ainslie Park	Edinburgh”

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

“Ainslie Park Stadium	Edinburgh
Alliance Park	Bellshill
Balmoral Stadium	Aberdeen
BBSP Stadium	Kilmarnock
moreroom.com Stadium	Dumbarton
Christie Gillies Park	Edinburgh
Foys Stadium	Hamilton
Lesser Hampden	Glasgow
New Central Park	Kelty
New Dundas Park	Bonnyrigg
Newtown Park	Bo’ness
The Reigart Stadium	Coatbridge
Simple Digital Arena	Paisley
Tony Macaroni Arena	Livingston”

(3) In schedule 2 (classes of sporting events), in paragraph 4—

(a) in sub-paragraph (g), omit “or”,

(b) in sub-paragraph (h), for “.” substitute “; or”,

(c) after sub-paragraph (h) insert—

“(i) the UEFA Europa Conference League.”.

KEVIN STEWART

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

8th March 2022

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2014 (“the 2014 Order”). The 2014 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 list of sports grounds designated in the 2014 Order to reflect changes to the names of several of the previously designated grounds. Further, it removes some of the previously designated grounds, and adds additional grounds, to reflect changes to the membership of the football leagues for which the home grounds of member clubs were designated in the 2014 Order.

Article 2(3) of this Order adds association football matches in the competition for the UEFA Europa Conference League to the list of classes of sporting events designated in the 2014 Order.

(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). Section 18 has been modified by paragraph 2 of schedule 3 to the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10).

(2)

S.S.I. 2014/5, relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2014/374.