7.Section 2 of the Act makes it an offence to tout a Championship ticket (“the touting offence”). A Championship ticket is any ticket, card, electronic device or other thing which entitles an individual to attend a EURO 2028 football match, whether or not the event is in Scotland (see the definition in section 1(1) of the Act).
8.Doing any of the following acts count as “touting” where the price of the Championship ticket is more than the ticket’s face value, or the act is done with a view to making a profit—
	selling a Championship ticket,
	offering to sell, or exposing for sale, a Championship ticket,
	advertising that a Championship ticket is for purchase, or making a Championship ticket available for sale by another person,
	giving away (or offering to give away) a Championship ticket where that is conditional upon the payment of a booking fee or other charge, or the acquisition of some other goods or services.
9.In calculating whether the price of a Championship ticket is for an amount that is more than the ticket’s face value the following must be included—
	any booking fee or other charge,
	the value of anything acquired along with the ticket (for example, if a small item is sold at an inflated price and the buyer gets a free Championship ticket with the item then that sale and the price paid is treated as a sale of a Championship ticket for that price),
	if a ticket is exchanged (rather than sold for money), the value of the thing exchanged.
10.Where an act is done with a view to making a profit, it is the person disposing of the ticket who must be aiming to make a profit from it, even if the act which constitutes the offence is carried out by someone else. For example, an advertiser may commit an offence by advertising the sale of tickets by a person where that person is making a profit from the ticket sales. Whether or not the advertiser makes a profit from selling advertising space to the ticket seller is irrelevant (but see section 4 of the Act which provides an exception to the touting offence for certain advertisers where the advertiser does not, and could not reasonably be expected to, know that the ticket seller intends make a profit).
11.The touting offence does not apply to acts done by UEFA or those authorised by UEFA. This exception is only for properly authorised activity. The touting offence still applies to a person working for or with UEFA if they attempt to sell a ticket for profit or above face value without such authorisation, for example, for personal gain.
The Act Ticket touting Section 2: Ban on ticket touting