A1 - Rejman, Aneta CY - Częstochowa KW - a club banning order KW - a ban on entry to mass events KW - legal provisions T1 - Club Banning Orders as Well as Ban on Entry to Mass Events Pursuant to Applicable Legal Provisions – Chosen Aspects N2 - Having considered the Senate amendments, Polish Parliament (its 6th term of office ) passed the Act on Safety at Mass Events on 20 March 2009. The Act, which was signed by the President of the Republic of Poland on 9 April 2009 and published in the Polish Journal of Laws on April 21, 2009, came into force on August 1, 2009. This Act repealed the previously applicable Act on Safety at Mass Events of 22 August 1997. Despite many amendments, the provisions of the Act of 22 August 1997 “ lost their internal consistency and not being coherent with other provisions, consequently prevented the effective application of the law due to the growing phenomenon of stadium hooliganism". Having been in force for two years, the newly passed Act was supplemented by regulations which allowed to increase the effectiveness of all the bodies, services and institutions involved in securing mass sports events in the field of enforcing security and public order during those events. This new Act also made amendments to the current Code of Penal Proceedings by introducing a legal instrument in the form of a ban on entry to a mass event, the aim of which was to eliminate a specific category of offenders from participating in mass events. We mean in particular those offenders who misbehave violating the law and at the same time pose security threats at such events. Unfortunately, numerous examples of the ongoing sports events indicate that too often there is a disruption of public order. This happens despite the fact that the Act on Safety at Mass Events or the Criminal Code authorize the eligible persons to use relatively stringent penal-repressive solutions. This results in the search for new measures that will reduce such negative phenomena. PY - 2017 PB - Wydawnictwo im. Stanisława Podobińskiego Akademii im. Jana Długosza w Częstochowie