jillian
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- Apr 4, 2006
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Ticketing policy has nothing to do with government. Ticketing policy is determined by the IOC and LOCOG and administered by the latter.
LOCOG (The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games) is not a government body. It is a private company.
http://www.london2012.com/about-us/the-people-delivering-the-games/locog/
london olympic and paralympic games act 2006 section 31
So what point are you trying to make? There have long been laws making it an offence for non-licensed individuals to sell on tickets for certain sporting events. That's what empowers the police to arrest ticket touts or confiscate their tickets. For example:
resale of football tickets is illegal under section 166Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. This Act stipulates that it is anoffence for an unauthorised person to sell a ticket for a designated footballmatch or otherwise dispose of such a ticket to another person.
However, touts began to find ways around this legislation, for example, byselling other types of merchandise at an inflated price with the inclusion of afree match ticket. Consequently, this Act has been amended by section 53 ofthe Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006. This imposes the following restrictions inrelation to the resale of football tickets:
newspapers cannot carry advertising for ticket touts;
touts are prevented from claiming that a match ticket comes free withanother product;
section 166 will apply to people offering tickets with a wider/hospitalitypackage and people who provide tickets to touts.
If someone is convicted of ticket touting at football matches under UK law,they may be liable to a fine of up to £5,000 and have a football banning order imposed upon them.
Ticket touting - Consumer Law
With ticket touting guaranteed to be a major problem with the Olympics, why should it be any surprise that an existing law was extended to cover the Olympics? It would have been irresponsible to NOT implement such policies and law, which is probably one of the IOC conditions anyway.
you get busted for scalping tickets here, too. not quite sure what he's whinging about.