Justice Committee, Official Report 7 November 2017, col. 33As well as the specific query regarding how Police Scotland can use Section 6, Jeanette Findlay of Fans Against Criminalisation raised a wider question about the drafting of the 2012 Act:
If there needed to be such legislation, it should not have been attached to something that relates only to football fans. I accept that Section 6 does not relate only to football fans, but it is because of the whole muddled original drafting of the legislation that Section 1 draws up a list of offences that apply only in the context of a regulated football match, while Section 6 concerns an entirely separate matter that applies to everybody and is rarely used.