Summary
4.The Act contains four main measures:
combining domestic and international football banning orders;
enabling a magistrates’ court to impose a banning order where such an order would help to prevent violence or disorder at, or in connection with, certain football matches;
making passport withdrawal mandatory in respect of the new combined banning order, unless there are exceptional circumstances, in connection with certain football matches played outside the United Kingdom; and
enabling a constable (in certain circumstances) to require a person before him to appear before a magistrates’ court within 24 hours to answer a complaint for the making of a banning order, and to prevent that person from leaving England and Wales in the meantime.
