text: sports event specified in sub-paragraph (3). 
  
  (2) The conditions specified in this sub-paragraph are that, prior to P’s departure to the United 
  
  Kingdom— 
  
  (a) the relevant head of the mission, consular post, or office representing a foreign territory in 
  the United Kingdom, or a Governor of a British overseas territory (as the case may be), or 
  a person acting on their authority, confirms in writing to the Foreign, Commonwealth and 
  Development Office that P is required to undertake work in the United Kingdom which is 
  essential to the foreign country represented by the mission or consular post, the foreign 
  territory represented by the office or the British overseas territory; and 
  
  (b) the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has then confirmed in writing to 
  
  the person giving the confirmation referred to in paragraph (a) that— 
  (i) it has received that confirmation, and 