Statutory Instrument 1987 No. 1941

The Safety of Sports Grounds Regulations 1987

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1987 No. 1941

SPORTS GROUNDS AND SPORTING EVENTS

The Safety of Sports Grounds Regulations 1987

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by sections 6(1) and (4) and 10A(1) and (2) of the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975(^[1]), and after such consultation as is mentioned in section 18(4) of that Act, I hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and extent
    1.—(1)  These Regulations may be cited as the Safety of Sports Grounds Regulations 1987 and shall come into force on 1st January 1988.

    (2)  These Regulations do not extend to the Isles of Scilly.

Revocation
    2.     The Safety of Sports Grounds Regulations 1976(^[2]), the Safety of Sports Grounds (Scotland) Regulations 1976(^[3]) and the Safety of Sports Grounds (Amendment) Regulations 1986(^[4]) are hereby revoked, except for the purposes of any appeal to which paragraph 6 of Schedule 5 to the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 (transitional provisions as respects appeals about safety certificates)(^[5]) applies.

Interpretation
    3.     For the purposes of these Regulations "the 1975 Act" means the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975.

Applications
    4.—(1)  An application for a safety certificate shall be in the form contained in the Schedule to these Regulations or a form to the like effect.

    (2)  An application for the amendment, replacement or transfer of a safety certificate shall be made in writing and any such application shall set out the names and addresses of any persons who to the applicant's knowledge will or may be concerned in ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions of the safety certificate as amended, replaced or transferred.

Notices by local authority
    5.—(1)  As soon as practicable after a local authority have decided—
 (a) to issue a safety certificate (including an issue by way of replacement of a safety certificate); or
 (b) to amend a safety certificate; or
 (c) to refuse to amend or replace a safety certificate,
they shall serve on every interested party notice in writing of their decision setting out the information referred to in paragraph (4) below, together, in the case of a refusal, with their reasons for it.

    (2)  Where on an application for a special safety certificate a local authority have determined to refuse that application on grounds other than the one referred to in section 5(1) of the 1975 Act, they shall as soon as practicable after that refusal serve on the applicant notice in writing of their decision, together with their reasons for it.

    (3)  Where on an application for the transfer of a safety certificate a local authority—
 (a) determine that the person to whom it is proposed to transfer the certificate is not a qualified person, they shall, in addition to the notice referred to in section 5(1) of the 1975 Act, serve on the holder of the certificate a copy of that notice;
 (b) determine that the person to whom it is proposed to transfer the certificate is a qualified person but decide not to transfer the certificate, they shall serve on that person and the holder of the certificate notice in writing of their decision together with their reasons for it.

    (4)  A notice served under paragraph (1) above shall state that a copy of the safety certificate and a copy of any application in respect of which the local authority's decision was taken is available for inspection at a place and at the times specified in the notice.

    (5)  A soon as may be after the decision referred to in paragraph (1) above, the local authority shall cause to be published in a newspaper circulating in the locality of the sports ground to which the safety certificate relates a notice setting out that decision and the information referred to in paragraph (4) above.

    (6)  In this regulation "interested party" means—
 (a) the holder of a safety certificate whose application to have it amended or replaced has been refused;
 (b) any other person known to the local authority to be or likely to be concerned in ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions of the safety certificate;
 (c) the chief officer of police; and
 (d) where the local authority is in Greater London or a metropolitan county, the fire authority or, in any other case, the building authority.

Appeals under section 5 of the 1975 Act
    6.—(1)  An appeal under section 5 of the 1975 Act(^[6]) shall be brought (in accordance with subsection (3A) or, as the case may be, subsection (3B) of section 5 of that Act(^[7])) in the case of an appeal in respect of—
 (a)  a general safety certificate, not later than twenty-eight days, and
 (b) a special safety certificate, not later than seven days,
after the relevant date.

    (2)  In paragraph (1) above "relevant date" means—
 (a) in the case of a person to whom a safety certificate is issued, the date of the receipt by him of that certificate;
 (b) in the case of a person on whom a notice is served under section 4(1) (a) or 5(1) of the 1975 Act or regulation 5(1), (2) or (3) above, the date of the receipt by him of that notice; and
 (c) in the case of any other person, the date of the publication of the notice required by regulation 5(5) above.

Appeals under section 10A of the 1975 Act
    7.—(1)  An appeal by an aggrieved person against a prohibition notice under section 10A(1) of the 1975 Act(^[8]) shall be brought (in accordance with subsection (3) or, as the case may be, subsection (4) of section 10A of that Act) not later than twenty-one days after the day on which the notice was served on him under section 10(1) of the 1975 Act(^[9]).

    (2)  An appeal by an aggrieved person against an amendment to a prohibition notice under section 10A(1) of the 1975 Act (as extended by section 10A(2) of that Act) shall be brought (in accordance with subsection (3) or, as the case may be, subsection (4) of section 10A of that Act) not later than twenty-one days after the day on which the notice amending the prohibition notice was served on him under section 10(9) of the 1975 Act.

Fees
    8.     A local authority may determine the fee to be charged in respect of an application for the issue, amendment, replacement or transfer of a safety certificate but such a fee shall not exceed an amount commensurate with the work actually and reasonably done by or on behalf of the local authority in respect of the application.

Douglas Hurd

One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office

16th November 1987

[1] 1975 c. 52; section 6(1) (c) was substituted by section 22(7) of the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 (c. 27) and, section 10A was inserted by section 24 of that Act. back

[2] S.I. 1976/1263. back

[3] S.I. 1976/1300. back

[4] S.I. 1986/1045. back

[5] 1987 c. 27. back

[6] Section 5 was amended by paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51) and by section 22 of the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987. back

[7] Subsections (3A) and (3B) of section 5 were inserted by section 22(3) of the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987. back

[8] Section 10A was inserted by section 24 of the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987. back

[9] Section 10 was substituted by section 23(1) of the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987. back

Explanatory Note