Football (Disorder) (Amendment) Act 2002
| Year | 2002 |
Football (Disorder) (Amendment) Act2002
2002 CHAPTER 12
An Act to amend section 5 of the Football (Disorder) Act 2000; and for connected purposes.
[1st May 2002]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Amendment of Football \\(Disorder) Act 2000
1 Amendment of Football (Disorder) Act 2000
(1) Section 5 of the Football (Disorder) Act 2000 (which makes provision limiting the duration in force of provisions inserted by that Act into the Football Spectators Act 1989) is amended as set out in subsections (2) and (3).
(2) For subsection (2) there is substituted—
(2) But—
(a) no application under section 14B of the Football Spectators Act 1989 (banning orders made on a complaint) may be made, and
(b) no power conferred on a constable by section 21A or 21B of that Act (summary measures) may be exercised,
after the end of the period of five years beginning with the day on which section 1 of the Football (Disorder) (Amendment) Act 2002 comes into force.’
(3) Subsections (3) to (5) are repealed.
(4) In consequence of the provision made by subsection (3), in section 3(4) of the Football (Disorder) Act 2000 (which makes provision as to the parliamentary procedure applicable to certain orders), the words ‘An order under section 5(4), and’ are repealed.
2 Expenses
There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament any increase attributable to this Act in the sums payable out of money provided by Parliament under any other enactment.
3 Short title, commencement and extent
(1) This Act may be cited as the Football (Disorder) (Amendment) Act 2002 .
(2) Section 1 shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint.
(3) This Act extends to England and Wales only.
EXPLANATORY NOTES
INTRODUCTION
These explanatory notes relate to the Football (Disorder) (Amendment) Act which received Royal Assent on 1st May 2002. They have been prepared by the Home Office in order to assist the reader of the Act. They do not form part of the Act and have not been endorsed by Parliament.
2. The notes need to be read in conjunction with the Act. They are not, and are not meant to be, a comprehensive description of the Act.
THE ACT
3. The purpose of the Act is to renew for a five year period commencing on the day on which section 1 of the Football (Disorder) (Amendment) Act 2002 comes into force, two sets of powers which were inserted in the Football Spectators Act 1989 by the Football (Disorder) Act 2000, but which would have lapsed on 27th August 2001 if not renewed by statutory instrument. The Football (Disorder) (Duration of Powers) Order 2001 No. 2646 renewed the two sets of powers until 27th August 2002. There is no provision further to renew the powers by statutory instrument.
4. The first of the two sets of powers in question is contained in section 14B of the 1989 Act. It created a procedure known as the banning order made on complaint. Under this procedure, the police may make an application for a banning order...
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