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Enacted Dáil
No. 55 of 2021

Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021

Public bill · Government · Presented

The measure aims to stop ticket touting for concerts, sports and other events by making it an offence to resell or advertise tickets above their original price for venues or events officially designated under the law. It also requires sellers and ticket marketplaces to show key information, like the original price and seat details, and makes contract terms that try to block fair resale generally ineffective. Special rules are included for UEFA EURO 2020 tickets, and charities and amateur sports clubs get an exemption when sales are approved and the money goes to their activities.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to promote fairer access to tickets for cultural, entertainment, recreational and sporting events by prohibiting the sale or advertising for sale of tickets or ticket packages for a price exceeding their original sale price for events taking place in designated venues and for designated events; to provide that a contract term shall be void insofar as it purports to exclude or limit the transfer or sale of a ticket or ticket package for a price not exceeding the original sale price; to provide for certain information requirements where a primary ticket seller sells or advertises for sale, or a secondary ticket seller advertises or offers for sale, tickets or ticket packages for events taking place in designated venues or for designated events; to provide that a secondary ticket seller shall not sell or advertise for sale a UEFA EURO 2020 ticket or ticket package unless authorised by UEFA to do so; to give effect, in relation to ticket sales, to certain provisions of Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market; and to provide for related matters.

Last updated 11 September 2024

Sponsor
  • Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: From the Seanad
    Dáil
  • Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages
    Seanad
  • Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages
    Dáil
  • Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) Bill 2021: Referral to Select Committee
    Dáil

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