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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2005 No. 1748

SPORTS GROUNDS AND SPORTING EVENTS

The Safety of Sports Grounds (Designation) Order 2005

  Made 29th June 2005 
  Laid before Parliament 30th June 2005 
  Coming into force 23rd July 2005 

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon 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 2005 and shall come into force on 23rd July 2005.

Designation
     2. The sports grounds specified in the Schedule to this Order (being sports grounds in England and Wales 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 designated as sports grounds requiring safety certificates under the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975[2].


Tessa Jowell
Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Department for Culture, Media and Sport

29th June 2005



SCHEDULE
Article 2

Sports Ground Occupier of Sports Ground
Coventry City Football Club

Ricoh Arena

Phoenix Way

Coventry

CV6 6AQ

 Coventry City Football Club
Swansea City Association Football Club

The New Stadium

Landore

Swansea

SA1 2FA

 Swansea City Association Football Club


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order designates the Ricoh Arena in Coventry and The New Stadium in Swansea as sports grounds requiring safety certificates under the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975.

Notes:

 [1] 1975 c.52; section 1(1) was amended by Schedule 2 of 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 073038 0


 © Crown copyright 2005

Prepared 7 July 2005

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