Statutory guidance

The Breaching Limits on Ticket Sales Regulations 2017

New draft legislation to prevent ticket touts from using software bots to exploit consumers buying tickets to events.

• From: Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and The Rt Hon Matt Hancock
• Published: 31 December 2017

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Documents

CONSUMER PROTECTION AND CRIMINAL LAW: The Breaching Limits on Ticket Sales Regulations 2017

MS Word Document, 51 KB

Details

Draft legislation to prevent ticket touts from using automated software (bots) to avoid security measures and buy up more tickets than they allowed by event organisers, only to sell them on at inflated prices.

Read the press release

Published 31 December 2017