Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Order 2013 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Amendment of the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2010

2.-(1) The Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2010(2) is amended as follows.

(2) In Schedule 2 (classes of sporting events)-

(a)in Part I (classes of sporting events taking place at any of the sports grounds specified in Schedule 1), for paragraphs 1. and 2. substitute-

"1.  Association football matches in the Scottish Professional Football League."; and

(b)in Part II (classes of sporting events taking place outside Great Britain), for paragraphs (b) and (c) substitute-

"(b)a club which is a member of the Scottish Professional Football League; or".

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Order 2010 ("the 2010 Order") which was amended by the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2012 and the Sports Grounds and Sporting Events (Designation) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2013. The 2010 Order designates sports grounds, classes of sporting events played at those grounds and classes of sporting events outside Great Britain for the purposes of Part II of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995 (sporting events: control of alcohol etc.).

Article 2(2) of this Order reflects the merger of the Scottish Premier League and the Scottish Football League, both as referred to in Schedule 2 to the 2010 Order, to become the Scottish Professional Football League.