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Article 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, this Order specify offences under the law of Sweden which appear to Her Majesty to correspond to certain of the offences specified in Schedule 1 to the Football Spectators Act 1989. Under section 22 of that Act proceedings may be commenced before magistrates against a person who resides or is believed to reside in an area in England or Wales if that person has been convicted of such an offence. Under such proceedings a restriction order may be made against such a person. Under section 19 of that Act the person to whom such an order applies may be required to report to a police station in England or Wales on the occasion of a football match played in any country outside England and Wales of a description for the time being designated by order under section 14(2) of that Act.

Article 3 specifies the Ministry for Foreign Affairs as the authority in Sweden by which a certificate may be made certifying a person's conviction for one of the offences specified in Schedule 1 to this Order. Article 4 prescribes the form of the certificate. Under section 22(10) of the Football Spectators Act 1989 such a certificate is admissible in proceedings under Part II of that Act (which concerns restriction orders) as evidence of the facts therein stated. Under section 22(11) such facts are to be taken as proved (on production of the certificate and proof that the person against whom the proceedings are brought is the person whose conviction is certified) unless the contrary is proved.