Article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, this Order specify offences under the law of Belgium which appear to Her Majesty to correspond to certain of the offences specified in Schedule 1 to the Football Spectators Act 1989. Under section 22 of that Act proceedings may be commenced before magistrates against a person who resides or is believed to reside in an area in England or Wales if that person has been convicted of such an offence. In such proceedings an international football banning order may be made against such a person. Under section 19 of that Act the person to whom such an order applies may be required to report to a police station in England or Wales and to comply with any other conditions imposed on the occasion of a football match played in any country outside England and Wales of a description for the time being designated by order under section 14(2) of that Act.

Article 4 specifies a certificate given by the Belgium Ministry of Justice or Ministry of the Interior in the Form set out in Schedule 2 as the documentary form in which details of the conviction and related circumstances are to be given.

Under section 22(10) of the 1989 Act, a document in the form prescribed by this Order is admissible in proceedings under Part II of that Act (which concerns international football banning orders) arising from convictions in Belgium as evidence of the facts there stated. Under section 22(11) facts stated in the document are to be taken as proved (on production of the document and proof that the person against whom the proceedings are brought is the person whose conviction is set out in the document) unless the contrary is proved.