344. Making of football banning orders on conviction.

Where a person (the 'offender') is convicted of a relevant offence¹ the court² must make a football banning order³ in relation to him if satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for believing that making such an order in relation to the offender would help to prevent violence or disorder⁴ at or in connection with any regulated football matches⁵. This condition clearly contemplates that there must be a risk of repetition of violence or disorder at a football match before it is met, although it is not automatically satisfied merely because the instant offence is football-related⁶. There is no necessity