The Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 1930

SPORTS GROUNDS AND SPORTING EVENTS

The Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 1999

Made

7th July 1999

Laid before Parliament

7th July 1999

Coming into force

31st July 1999

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 1999 and shall come into force on 31st July 1999.

Designation

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

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

3.  In the Schedule to the Safety of Sports Grounds (Association Football Grounds) (Designation) Order 1985(3), the entry in respect of Springfield 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 Poole Stadium, Wimborne Road, Poole shall be omitted.

Chris Smith

Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

7th July 1999

Article 2

SCHEDULE

Address of Sports Ground	Occupier of Sports Ground
JJB Stadium Anjou Boulevard Robin Park Wigan	Wigan Athletic FC
Whaddon Road Ground Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL52 5NA	Cheltenham Town FC

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Article 2 of this Order designates the sports grounds specified in the Schedule as sports grounds 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. 1985/1063.

(4)

S.I. 1986/1296.