Sports Grounds Safety Authority Bill [HL]

Key Points

• Renaming: the Football Licensing Authority would become the Sports Grounds Safety Authority.
• Additional powers: the Authority would receive new powers to regulate safety at sports grounds and to enforce compliance.
• Scope of oversight: the reforms could extend safety regulation beyond football venues to other sports grounds.
• Legal process: the Bill sets out the framework for these changes and will need to pass through both Houses to become law.

Progress

The Bill is currently at the second reading in the Lords. If it progresses, it would move to committee stage and then to the House of Commons for consideration.