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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2003 No. 1256

SPORTS GROUNDS AND SPORTING EVENTS

The Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 2003

  Made 29th April 2003 
  Laid before Parliament 8th May 2003 
  Coming into force 31st May 2003 

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 1(1) of the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975[1], and 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 2003 and shall come into force on 31st May 2003.

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


Tessa Jowell
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

29th April 2003



SCHEDULE
Article 2

Sports ground Occupier of sports ground
Neasham Road

Darlington

DL2 1GR

 Darlington Football Club
National Hockey Stadium and Conference Centre

Silbury Boulevard

Central Milton Keynes

MK9 1HA

 Wimbledon Football Club


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order designates the Neasham Road stadium in Darlington and the National Hockey Stadium and Conference Centre in Central Milton Keynes as sports grounds requiring a safety certificate under the Safety of Sports Ground Act 1975.

Notes:

 [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).back

[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).back


ISBN 0 11 045990 3


 
© Crown copyright 2003
Prepared 14 May 2003

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