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SPICe briefings
Date published:
25 September 2017
Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Repeal) (Scotland) Bill - The Original Bill
The Original Bill
The Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Bill ("the Offensive Behaviour Bill") was introduced in the Scottish Parliament on 16 June 2011.
Committee reports
Date published:
18 January 2018
Stage 1 report on the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Repeal) (Scotland) Bill
The Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Bill ("the Offensive Behaviour Bill") was introduced in the Scottish Parliament on 16 June 2011.
Committee reports
Date published:
18 January 2018
Stage 1 report on the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Repeal) (Scotland) Bill - Impact on supporters
Has the 2012 Act brought about behavioural change? Yes, it has, but it has not changed or discouraged the expression of the types of behaviours that the 2012 Act sought to do away with and it has not made people less offensive; it has made them engage in a different way in behaviour that the 2012 Act regards as offensive.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
21 September 2022
SPICe Bill Summaries - Session 5 - Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Repeal) (Scotland) Bill
Purpose and objectives of the Bill
The Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Repeal) (Scotland) Bill sought to repeal, in its entirety, the 2012 Act.
Committee reports
Date published:
18 January 2018
Stage 1 report on the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Repeal) (Scotland) Bill - Views of witnesses
The second principle is that action and interventions are required to tackle all social problems. Offensive behaviour at football will not simply disappear on its own.
Committee reports
Date published:
18 January 2018
Stage 1 report on the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Repeal) (Scotland) Bill - Other measures for tackling hate crime and sectarianism
In the year 2016-2017 of the 26 persons who accessed Sacro’s STOP programme, only 3 persons did so in relation to sectarian behaviour as defined in the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications Act 2012.
Committee reports
Date published:
18 January 2018
Stage 1 report on the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Repeal) (Scotland) Bill - Summary of reasons for retaining the 2012 Act
Fear of prosecution is the only way to deal with sectarian behaviour.
Repealing the 2012 Act will make it more difficult to collect and provide data on football-related crimes.
Committee reports
Date published:
18 January 2018
Stage 1 report on the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Repeal) (Scotland) Bill - Use of Section 1 offence by COPFS/the police
Use of Section 1 offence by COPFS/the police
As has been covered earlier in this report, Section 1 of the 2012 Act creates an offence of “offensive behaviour at regulated football matches”.
Committee reports
Date published:
18 January 2018
Stage 1 report on the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Repeal) (Scotland) Bill - Executive Summary
Executive Summary
This report sets out the Justice Committee’s consideration of the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Repeal) (Scotland) Bill (“the Bill”) at Stage 1.
Committee reports
Date published:
18 January 2018
Stage 1 report on the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Repeal) (Scotland) Bill - Drafting of Section 1 offence
Proponents of the 2012 Act would say that often the behaviour is offensive in the context of football matches and therefore it should be criminalised.
