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REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - LONG TITLE

An Act to consolidate the Registration of Clubs Acts (Northern
Ireland) 1904 to 1966.
[14th December 1967]
PART I

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 1

1. No intoxicating liquor shall be supplied or kept for supply on
the premises of a club unless there is in force a certificate of
registration (in this Act referred to as "a certificate") issued
under section 10 to the club in respect of those premises.

Applications for and renewals of certificates.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 2

2.(1) Where a club desires to obtain a certificate or the renewal
of a certificate, the secretary of the club shall, not later than
30th November in any year, lodge with the clerk of petty sessions
(in this Act referred to as "the registrar") for the petty sessions
district in which are situate the premises for which the certificate
is sought or to which the certificate to be renewed relates

(a)an application signed by the chairman or secretary of the club
stating

(i)the name of the club;

(ii)the objects of the club;

<(iii)the address of the premises;

<(iv)the estimated maximum number of members of the club;

(v)where the premises are not owned by the club, the name and
address of every person beneficially entitled to receive any payment
made by the club for the use of the premises; and

<(vi)in the case of a nightworkers club, that the club is a nightworkers club;

(b)a copy of the rules of the club;

(c)a list containing the names and addresses of the officials and
committee of management or governing body of the club and the names
of members of the club;

(d)subject to subsection (5), a map or plan of the premises and a
description of the accommodation, facilities and amenities provided by
the club;

(e)where the premises are not owned by the club, a declaration in
or as nearly as may be in Form A set out in Schedule 1, which
declaration shall be signed by every person beneficially entitled to
receive any payment made by the club for the use of its premises
or, where any such person is under any disability, by his legal
representative.

(2) On every application by a club for a certificate or for the
renewal of a certificate, the club shall pay to the registrar a
court fee of [#10].

(3) A copy of the application and of all other documents which are
required by subsection (1) to be lodged with the registrar shall at
the time of such lodgment be sent by or on behalf of the club to
the Ministry and to the district inspector of the Royal Ulster
Constabulary for the area in which the club premises are situate.

(4) Where an application for a certificate or, as the case may be,
for the renewal of a certificate has been lodged with the
registrar, the club shall, in the month of November in the year in
which the application is lodged, cause to be published once in the
Belfast Gazette and at least once in each of two newspapers
circulating in the locality in which the premises of the club are
situate a notice in such form and containing such information as
may be prescribed by regulations made by the Ministry subject to
negative resolution.

(5) Subsection (1)(d) shall not apply in relation to an application
for the renewal of a certificate unless the premises have been
structurally altered since the date of the immediately preceding
application whether for an original certificate or the renewal of a
certificate, so however that the court hearing the application may,
notwithstanding anything in this subsection, require the production of
the map or plan and the other information mentioned in the said
paragraph (d).

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 3
Contents of rules to qualify for registration.

3.(1) Subject to subsection (2) and section 4, a club shall not be
eligible to be registered under this Act unless

(a)the rules of the club contain the provisions specified in
Schedule 2;

(b)the hours fixed by the rules of the club for the supply of
intoxicating liquor on the premises of the club are

(i)on Sundays, Christmas Day and Good Friday, not more than six,
beginning not earlier than noon and ending not later than half-past
ten in the evening,

(ii)on any other day, not more than twelve, beginning not earlier
than ten in the morning and ending not later than half-past eleven
in the evening; and

(c)the hours fixed by the rules for the purposes of paragraph
(b)(i) are such that intoxicating liquor shall not be supplied on
the premises of the club during a period of at least two
consecutive hours between two in the afternoon and five in the
afternoon.

(2) In the application of subsection (1)(a) and Schedule 2 to a
club which is primarily devoted to an athletic purpose, paragraph 10
of that Schedule shall be omitted.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 4
Nightworkers clubs.

4.(1) Where an application under section 2 states that the club in
respect of which the application is made is a nightworkers club and
on the hearing of the application the court is satisfied that the
members of the club are persons who by reason of the times during
which they are normally employed would be unable to take advantage
of facilities provided by clubs to which paragraphs (b) and (c) of
section 3(1) apply, the court shall direct the registrar to add to
the form of certificate issued pursuant to section 10 and Schedule
1 the following statement:

xtf1lf40f3f1f3f1lf40lf4001on Sundays, Christmas Day and Good Friday,
the total of those hours shall not exceed six and the hours during
which the supply of intoxicating liquor is prohibited shall include
a period of at least two consecutive hours between two in the
afternoon and five in the afternoon;

(b)on other days, the total of those hours shall not exceed twelve;
and

(c)those hours shall not include any period between half-past one in
the morning and six in the morning of any day.

(3) Where under subsection (2) the court has fixed or varied the
hours during which intoxicating liquor may be supplied on the
premises of a club

(a)the court shall cause a note of the hours so fixed or varied
to be entered in the register of clubs; and

(b)where the hours specified in the rules of the club differ from
the hours so fixed or varied, the rules shall be amended so as to
prohibit the supply of intoxicating liquor on the club premises
otherwise than during the hours so fixed or varied and if the
rules are not so amended by the club within the period of twelve
months next following the fixing or varying of the hours by the
court, the court shall not, after the expiry of that period, renew
the certificate of registration.

(4) The rules of the club shall prohibit the admission of visitors
to, or their presence in, the club premises between the hours of
midnight and ten in the morning next following.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 5
Meaning of ""permitted hours''.

5. In this Act the expression "permitted hours" means the hours
fixed by the rules of a club for the purposes of section 3 or,
in the case of a nightworkers club, by the court under section 4.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 6
Objections to grant of applications for the issue or renewal of
certificates.

6.(1) A district inspector of the Royal Ulster Constabulary acting
for the district in which the club premises are situate and any
person owning or occupying premises in the neighbourhood of the club
premises may lodge objections to the grant of an application for
the issue or renewal of a certificate on any of the grounds
specified in Schedule 3.

(2) Objections shall be lodged by the objector with the registrar,
and a copy of the objections shall be sent by the objector to the
secretary of the club concerned, within twenty-one days of the date
of the last publication required to be made by section 2(4).

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 7
Hearing of applications.

7.(1) Applications for, or for the renewal of, certificates shall,
subject to section 12(1), be brought before the court in the month
of January in each year.

(2) A resident magistrate shall not adjudicate on the hearing of an
application or complaint affecting a club of which he is a member.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), every applicant for, or for the
renewal of, a certificate and every objector who has complied with
section 6(2) shall be entitled to appear and be heard at the
hearing of the application and, in the case of an objector, to
oppose the grant of the application on the grounds specified in his
objection.

(4) The court shall not consider any objection to the grant of the
application unless it is made on one or more of the grounds
specified in Schedule 3.

(5) Without prejudice to any other power of the court to adjourn
proceedings, the court may adjourn the hearing of an application to
a future day in order to

(a)enable the club or the district inspector of the Royal Ulster
Constabulary appearing on the application to produce evidence or
further evidence to the court; or

(b)enable the club to bring its rules into conformity with section
3 and Schedule 2.

(6) If upon the hearing of an application any persons are entitled
to be heard under subsection (3) of this section or under section
8(3), the court shall hear those persons, and may order such
enquiry as it thinks fit, and thereafter shall grant or refuse the
application.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 8
Matters on which court must be satisfied before granting an
application.

8.(1) The court shall not grant an application for a certificate or
a renewal thereof unless it is satisfied by the club as to the
following matters:

(i)that the premises of the club are in all respects (including
location, accommodation, facilities and amenities) suitable and proper
having regard to the objects of the club and to the estimated
maximum number of members thereof;

(ii)that the club is, and is intended to be, conducted in good
faith as a club and not mainly for the supply of intoxicating
liquor and, in the case of an application for an original
certificate, has been conducted in good faith as a club for not
less than the twelve months immediately preceding the date on which
the application for such certificate was lodged under section 2;

(iii)that the provisions of the rules of the club and of this Act
are, and are intended to be, complied with;

(iv)that the hours during which intoxicating liquor may be supplied
on the premises in accordance with the rules of the club are
within the limits laid down by section 3(1)(b) and (c), and are
suitable and proper having regard to the objects of the club;

(v)where the application is for the renewal of a certificate, that
the club has, for the year immediately past, been conducted in
accordance with its rules in good faith as a club and not mainly
for the supply of intoxicating liquor;

(vi)where the application is for an original certificate, that there
is not sufficient club accommodation of a similar character already
in existence in the neighbourhood in which the club premises are
situate.

(2) Subsection (1)(iv) shall not apply to a nightworkers club to
which section 4(2) to (4) applies.

(3) Any district inspector of the Royal Ulster Constabulary shall be
entitled to be heard in relation to the matters set forth in
subsection (1).

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 9
Grant and renewal of certificates, costs and appeals.

9.(1) If no objections are taken under section 6, the court, if
satisfied that the application for the grant of a certificate or a
renewal thereof, has been duly made and that the rules of the club
are in conformity with the provisions of this Act, shall, subject
to section 8(1), grant the application.

(2) The court may, where a club making application for the renewal
of a certificate fails to comply with the provisions of section 2
as to the time before or within which such application or a copy
thereof is required to be lodged or a notice is required to be
published, grant the application if satisfied that the failure was
due to inadvertence and that every person entitled to object to the
application had a reasonable opportunity to do so.

(3) The court may order that the successful party on any
application for the issue or renewal of a certificate to which
objections are lodged under section 6 shall recover costs from the
unsuccessful party, in like manner as it may order in any summary
proceedings by virtue of section 164 of the Magistrates' Courts Act
(Northern Ireland) 1964.

(4) The decision of the court, on an application for the issue or
renewal of a certificate, or in cancelling a certificate under the
provisions of section 14, shall be subject to appeal under Part
XIII of the Magistrates' Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1964.

(5) Where an appeal is brought under subsection (4) against the
refusal of an application for the renewal of a certificate or
against an order for the cancellation of a certificate, the
certificate shall remain in force pending the determination of the
appeal.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 10
Procedure on grant of application.

10. Where the court grants an application for the grant of a
certificate or a renewal thereof

(a)the court shall cause the entries required by section 13 to be
made in the register;

(b)the registrar shall issue to the applicant a certificate in Form
B set out in Schedule 1.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 11
Duration of certificates.

11.(1) Subject to subsection (2) and section 12, a certificate shall
remain in force until the 31st January in the year next following
the year in which the certificate was issued.

(2) Where an application has been made for the renewal of a
certificate, that certificate shall remain in force for a further
period not exceeding three months pending the final determination of
the application by the court so however that the court may extend
that further period by a further period not exceeding three months.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 12
Application for certificate where club transfers to new premises.

12.(1) Where a club proposes to transfer from premises in respect
of which a certificate is in force to other premises and desires
to obtain a new certificate in respect of those other premises, the
application for the new certificate may be brought at any time, and
accordingly section 2 shall, in relation to that application, have
effect as if

(a)in subsection (1), the words "not later than 30th November in
any year" and in paragraph (d) of that subsection the words
"subject to subsection (5)," were omitted;

(b)in subsection (4), for the words "in the month of November in
the year in which the application is lodged" there were substituted
the words "before the first day of the month preceding the month
in which the transfer is to take place";

(c)subsection (5) were omitted.

(2) Where an application to which subsection (1) relates is granted
the new certificate issued thereupon shall, subject to the provisions
of this Act, remain in force

(i)where it is issued in the first ten months of any year, until
the thirty-first day of January in the next following year;

(ii)where it is issued in the last two months of any year, until
the thirty-first day of January in the next following year but one.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 13
Register of clubs.

13.(1) The registrar shall keep a register of clubs having premises
within his district in respect of which a certificate

(a)has been issued under any enactment repealed by this Act and is
in force at the commencement of this Act;

(b)is issued under section 10.

(2) The register shall be in the form prescribed by regulations
made by the Governor and shall show in respect of each club
entered therein

(a)the name of the club;

(b)the date on which the application for the certificate was
granted;

(c)whether the certificate was issued for the first time or on
renewal;

(d)the address of the premises to which the certificate applies;

(e)the names and addresses of the officials and the committee of
management or governing body of the club;

(f)the estimated maximum number of members of the club;

(g)where the premises are not owned by the club, the name and
address of every person beneficially entitled to receive any payment
made by the club for the use of the premises.

(3) The register and a copy of the rules of each club lodged with
the registrar under section 2 may at all reasonable hours be
inspected

(a)without charge by a district inspector of the Royal Ulster
Constabulary or by any member of that force authorised by him to
inspect the register or the rules or by any officer of the Customs
and Excise or of the Ministry of Finance;

(b)by any other person on payment of a fee of [5p].

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 14
Cancellation of certificates.

14.(1) On application to it by or at the instance of any person
entitled under section 6 to lodge objections to an application by a
club for the grant or renewal of a certificate, the court may make
an order that, on grounds specified in the order, that club is
being so managed or carried on as to constitute a ground of
objection to the renewal of its certificate.

(2) Where an order has been made under subsection (1), the
registrar shall forthwith make an entry of the order in the
register of clubs.

(3) Where an entry is made under subsection (2) or a conviction is
recorded under section 31(1) for an offence against a rule of the
club made pursuant to paragraph 18 or 19 of Schedule 2, the
registrar shall lay the register before the court, and, the court
may, if it thinks fit and after such further inquiry as it may
think necessary, having regard to the grounds specified in the order
made under subsection (1) or to the magnitude of the offence,
cancel the certificate of the club for the remainder of the period
for which the certificate would otherwise remain in force so however
that the club may apply for renewal of that certificate at the
date on which it would have been competent to do so had the
certificate not been cancelled.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 15
Powers of court on refusing to renew or cancelling certificate.

15.(1) Where a court

(a)refuses an application by a registered club for the renewal of
its certificate,

(b)cancels the certificate of a club under section 14(3),

(2) Where an order is required to be made under section 31(2) by
reason of a conviction which has been recorded under section 31(1),
subsection (1) of this section shall not apply where the certificate
of the club is cancelled consequent on that conviction.

(3) Any order made by the court under subsection (1) may, for good
cause shown, be subsequently cancelled or varied by the court.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 16
Effect of registration.

16. The registration of a club under section 10 shall not
constitute the club premises licensed premises within the meaning of
the Licensing Acts (Northern Ireland) or authorise any sale of
intoxicating liquor in the club which would otherwise be illegal but
the supply, in accordance with the rules of the club and this Act,
of intoxicating liquor by a registered club to a member of the
club or to a duly admitted visitor to the club shall not, for the
purposes of any enactment prohibiting the sale of intoxicating
liquor, be deemed to be an unlawful sale to that member or
visitor.

Persons under eighteen not to be employed in club bars.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 17

17.(1) No person under the age of eighteen shall be employed in
any bar of club premises.

(2) For the purposes of this section a person shall not be deemed
to be employed in a bar by reason only that in the course of his
employment in some other part of the club premises he enters the
bar for the purpose of giving or receiving any message or of
passing to or from some other part of the premises, not a bar,
being a part in respect of which there is no other convenient
means of access.

(3) For the purposes of this section a person shall be deemed to
be employed by the person for whom he works notwithstanding that he
receives no wages for his work.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 18
Closing of bar and consumption of intoxicating liquor in club.

18.(1) Any bar on club premises shall be kept closed except during
the permitted hours.

(2) Subject to subsection (3) and to sections 19 and 32, no person
shall, except during the permitted hours, consume any intoxicating
liquor in the premises of a registered club.

(3) Where intoxicating liquor is lawfully supplied to any person
during permitted hours, subsection (2) shall not operate to prohibit
the consumption by that person of that liquor during the thirty
minutes immediately following, where there is only one continuous
period of permitted hours in any day, that period and, where there
is more than one period of permitted hours in any day, the last
such period.

In this subsection, in its application to a nightworkers club to
which section 4 applies, the expression "any day" means the
twenty-four hours ending at half-past one in the morning of any
day.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 19
Authorisations for special occasions.

19.(1) On the application of a registered club, a district inspector
of the Royal Ulster Constabulary for the district in which the club
premises are situated may, notwithstanding anything contained in
section 18 or in the rules of the club regarding permitted hours,
in writing authorise the club to supply, to members of the club
and to duly admitted visitors, intoxicating liquor during any one
period specified in the authorisation during which the supply of
intoxicating liquor would otherwise be a contravention of that
section or those rules.

(2) The period specified in an authorisation under subsection (1)
shall not, in the case of a club other than a nightworkers club,
include any period between three o'clock in the morning and ten
o'clock in that morning, and, in the case of a nightworkers club,
exceed three hours in duration.

(3) Not more than twelve authorisations shall be granted under this
section to any club in any year.

(4) The opening or keeping open of any bar on the premises of a
registered club for, or the supply of intoxicating liquor in the
club premises to, members of the club or duly admitted visitors
during any period specified in an authorisation under subsection (1)
or the consumption of intoxicating liquor by such members or
visitors during that period, or the admission of visitors to, or
their presence in, the premises of a nightworkers club during that
period shall be lawful and shall not be deemed a contravention of
this Act or the rules of the club.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 20
Admission of visiting teams etc.

20. In the case of a team or other body of persons who are, as
members of another club (whether registered or not), society or
organisation, visiting a registered club for the purpose of taking
part in or in the organisation of or arrangements for, any pastime,
sport, game or recreation at the registered club, it shall suffice,
for the purposes of paragraph 14 of Schedule 2 or of any rule
required by that paragraph to be made by the registered club, for
the secretary or other officer of the club being visited to enter
in the book required to be kept by that paragraph the name of the
club, society or organisation visiting that club and the number of
such visitors without specifying their names and addresses and
thereafter on the occasion of that visit intoxicating liquor may be
supplied to such visitors at the request and in the presence of
any officer of the registered club being visited, and the admission
of such visitors shall be disregarded for the purposes of paragraph
13 of Schedule 2.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 21
Audit of accounts and returns.

21.(1) Every registered club shall cause the accounts kept in
pursuance of rules made in accordance with paragraph 12 of Schedule
2 to be audited by an approved auditor and shall cause a copy of
the accounts as so audited to be sent to the Ministry within six
months after the expiration of the period to which the accounts
relate or within such further period, if any, as the Ministry may
in writing allow.

(2) Every registered club shall cause to be sent to the Ministry
within three months after the expiration of each calendar year, or
within such further period, if any, as the Ministry may in writing
allow, a statement certified by an approved auditor showing all sums
expended by the club in the purchase of intoxicating liquor during
that year.

Entry into and inspection of clubs.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 22

22.(1) A justice of the peace, on being satisfied by information on
oath that there is reasonable ground for supposing that

(a)a registered club is so managed or carried on as to constitute
a ground of objection to the renewal under section 6 and Schedule
3 of its certificate, or

(b)an offence under this Act has been or is being committed in a
registered club, or

(c)intoxicating liquor is ... supplied, or kept for ... supply, on
the premises of an unregistered club,

(2) A search warrant granted under this section shall authorise the
constable or constables named therein to enter at any time, if need
be by force, the club to which the warrant relates, inspect the
premises of the club, take the names and addresses of any persons
found therein and seize any books and papers relating to the
business of the club.

(3) A district inspector, head constable or sergeant of the Royal
Ulster Constabulary, alone or accompanied by one or more constables,
shall, without a warrant, have all the powers of a constable
authorised by a warrant under this section.

Penalty for supplying or keeping intoxicating liquor in unregistered
clubs.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 23

23.(1) Where intoxicating liquor is ... supplied to any member or
other person on the premises of an unregistered club, every person
who

(a)... supplies such liquor; or

(b)authorises the ... supply of such liquor; or

(c)pays for such liquor,

(2) Where intoxicating liquor is kept for ... supply on the
premises of an unregistered club

(a)that liquor and any vessels containing that liquor may be seized
by any member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary under a warrant
granted by a justice of the peace after examination on oath of a
credible witness to the fact that such liquor is so kept;

(b)every officer and member of the club shall, unless he proves to
the satisfaction of the court that such liquor was so kept without
his knowledge or against his consent, be guilty of an offence and
shall be liable on summary conviction [to a fine not exceeding
#100]; and

(c)the liquor and the vessels containing the liquor shall, on a
conviction under paragraph (b), be forfeited and sold and the
proceeds of such sale shall be applied in like manner as a fine
under section 20 of the Administration of Justice Act (Northern
Ireland) 1954.

(3) The references to an offence in subsection (2)(b) are references
to an offence under this section or under the corresponding
provisions of any enactment repealed by this Act.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 24
Unlawful supply and consumption etc., in registered clubs.

24.(1) If, in a registered club, intoxicating liquor is

(a)supplied to, or obtained or consumed by, any person other than a
member or duly admitted visitor or an employee of the club; or

(b)supplied to, or obtained by, any person otherwise than during the
permitted hours; or

(c)otherwise supplied to, or obtained or consumed by, any person in
contravention of any provision of this Act or of the rules of the
club;

(i)the club;

(ii)any person so supplying, obtaining or consuming intoxicating
liquor;

(iii)any person permitting any such supply, obtaining or consumption;

(iv)any person paying for or taking delivery of such intoxicating
liquor;

(2) Every registered club permitting any bar to open in
contravention of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of an
offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding twenty pounds.

(3) Every registered club acting in contravention of a rule of the
club required to be made in pursuance of paragraph 17 of Schedule
2 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 25
Penalty for employing persons under eighteen in club bars.

25.(1) If any person under the age of eighteen is employed in any
bar of club premises contrary to section 17, the club shall be
guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to
a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

(2) Where in any proceedings under this section it is alleged that
a person was at any time under eighteen, and he appears to the
court then to have been under that age, for the purposes of the
proceedings he shall be deemed to have been then under that age
unless the contrary is shown.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 26
Presence of unauthorised persons in certain parts of club premises.

26.(1) Every person, other than

(a)a member of the club;

(b)a duly admitted visitor to the club;

(c)a person on the premises of the club for purposes connected with
his trade, profession or employment (including employment by the
club);

(2) Every registered club authorising or permitting any person to
act in contravention of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an
offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding twenty pounds.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 27
Penalty for failing to give name, etc., to police.

27. If any person refuses to give his name and address to any
member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary acting under section 22, or
gives a false name or address, he shall be guilty of an offence
and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding
[#20].

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 28
Penalty for making false application for registration.

28. If the secretary of any club or any other person knowingly
lodges with the registrar an application for registration under this
Act which is false in any material particular, he shall be guilty
of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not
exceeding [#100], or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three
months, or to both such fine and imprisonment.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 29
Penalty for failure to have accounts audited and make returns.

29. Every registered club acting in contravention of section 21
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 30
Liability of officials for certain offences.

30.(1) Where an order has been made under section 14(1) that a
registered club is being so managed or carried on as to constitute
a ground of objection to the renewal of its certificate and the
grounds specified in the order include all or any of the following,
that is to say

(a)that the club is not conducted in good faith as a club or that
it is kept or habitually used for an unlawful purpose or mainly
for the supply of intoxicating liquor; or

(b)that there is frequent drunkenness on the club premises or that
persons in a state of intoxication are frequently seen to leave the
club premises or that the club is conducted in a disorderly manner;
or

(c)that persons who are not members are habitually admitted to the
club merely for the purpose of obtaining intoxicating liquor;

(2) The references to an offence in subsection (1) are references
to an offence under this section or under the corresponding
provisions of any enactment repealed by this Act.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 31
Recording of convictions and consequences thereof.

31.(1) Where a registered club is convicted of an offence under
this Act, such conviction shall be recorded in the register of
clubs and on the certificate of registration of that club unless
the court by which the club is convicted is satisfied that by
reason of the existence of extenuating circumstances in connection
with the offence (which circumstances shall be specified in the
order of the court) the conviction ought not to be recorded.

(2) If in any period of ten successive years three or more
convictions are recorded against a registered club whether under
subsection (1) or under the corresponding provision of any enactment
repealed by this Act, the court before which the third of such
convictions takes place shall order that, for such period as may be
specified by the court in the order but not being less than three
nor more than ten years, the premises then occupied by the club
shall not be occupied or used for the purposes of any registered
club.

(3) Any person who is aggrieved by reason of the period specified
by the court under subsection (2) may appeal under Part XIII of
the Magistrates' Courts Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 against the order
on the ground that the period is excessive.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 32
Defence in respect of consumption of intoxicating liquor by certain
persons outside permitted hours.

32. Where any person or club is charged under any of the
provisions of this Act with the offence of consuming, or permitting
the consumption of, intoxicating liquor in the premises of a
registered club outside the permitted hours or a period authorised
under section 19, it shall be a good defence to prove that such
liquor was supplied by a person residing on those premises for
consumption by him or private friends bona fide entertained by him
at his own expense and that it was consumed by such persons in a
part of those premises reserved for the use of the person residing
on the premises.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 33
Proof of supply or consumption of intoxicating liquor.

33.Subs.(1) rep. by 1971 c.13 (NI) s.86(5) sch.12 Pt.I

(2) Evidence that consumption of intoxicating liquor was about to
take place shall, in any such proceedings as aforesaid, be evidence
of the consumption of intoxicating liquor without proof of actual
consumption.

(3) Evidence that any person obtained, consumed or intended to
consume intoxicating liquor in the premises of a registered club
shall, in any such proceedings as aforesaid, be evidence that the
liquor was ... supplied by or on behalf of the club.

(4) Where it is proved that intoxicating liquor has been received,
delivered or distributed within the premises of a registered club
and taken outside the premises, it shall, failing proof to the
contrary, be deemed to have been so taken for consumption outside
the premises.

(5) Where intoxicating liquor in open vessels is found in the
premises of a registered club during any period when the consumption
of intoxicating liquor in those premises is prohibited by this Act,
consumption of intoxicating liquor shall, in any proceedings for a
contravention of any provisions of this Act, be deemed to have
taken place during that period and in those premises unless and
until the contrary is proved.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 34
Proceedings against clubs.

34.(1) Proceedings under this Act may be brought against a
registered club in the name in which it is registered.

(2) Any summons or other document required to be served on the
club in the course of such proceedings may be served on the
secretary of the club; and any such summons shall, in addition to
being so served, be served also on any other person whom the
justice of the peace granting the summons may direct.

(3) Any warrant for the recovery of any sum adjudged to be paid
by a club by a conviction or order of a court under this Act may
be levied against the goods and chattels of the club.

Returns to Parliament.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 35

35. The Minister of Home Affairs shall lay before both Houses of
Parliament annually a return showing, in relation to every registered
club, its name and object and the address of the club premises,
the number of members of the club, and the hours during which the
[supply] of intoxicating liquor is authorised by the club rules, and
containing a statement of the total sum expended by the club in
the purchase of intoxicating liquor during the calendar year
preceding the return.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 36
1952 c.44

36. In this Act

"approved auditor" means a member of any of the following bodies,
that is to say

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland,

"bar" includes any place exclusively or mainly used for the supply
of intoxicating liquor and shall not, where that place is
structurally separated, or provision is made for its structural
separation, from any other part of the premises where intoxicating
liquor is usually consumed, include that other part;

"certificate" has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(1);

"court" means a court of summary jurisdiction;

"duly admitted visitor" in relation to a registered club, means a
visitor lawfully admitted to the premises of that club in accordance
with any rule of the club required to be made under paragraphs 13
and 14 of Schedule 2;

"estimated maximum number of members", in relation to the grant or
renewal of a certificate, means an estimate of the maximum number
of persons who will be members of the club during the currency of
the certificate;

"intoxicating liquor" has the meaning assigned to it by section 307
of the Customs and Excise Act 1952;

"the Ministry" means the Ministry of Home Affairs;

"permitted hours" has the meaning assigned to it by section 5;

"registered club" means a club for which there is in force a
certificate issued under section 10 or under the provisions of any
enactment repealed by this Act;

"registrar" has the meaning assigned to it by section 2(1);

"secretary" includes any officer of a club or other person
performing the duties of secretary;

"visitor" in relation to a registered club, means a person, other
than a member of the club, who is visiting the premises of the
club for the purpose of taking part in any activity promoted by
the club or for the purpose of enjoying any of the facilities or
amenities provided by the club or for all or any of those
purposes.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 37
1954 c.33

37.Subs.(1), with Schedule 4, effects repeals

(2) Without prejudice to the operation of sections 28 and 29 of
the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (which relate to the
effect of repeals and substituting provisions)

(a)nothing in subsection (1) shall affect the continuation in force
of any order made under the provisions of any enactment repealed by
this Act which correspond with section 15(1) or 31(2), and section
15(3) shall apply to any order made under any such provision which
corresponds with section 15(1) as it applies to an order made under
section 15(1);

(b)any reference in any document (whether express or implied) to any
enactment or provision of any enactment repealed by this Act shall,
except where the context otherwise requires, be construed respectively
as, or as including, a reference to this Act or to the
corresponding provision of this Act.

(3) The restriction on the application of section 4 of the
Registration of Clubs (Ireland) Act 1904 imposed by the proviso to
that section (which relates to lodges of freemasons) shall,
notwithstanding the repeal of that proviso, continue to apply to the
provisions of section 2 of and Schedule 2 to this Act which
reproduce the provisions of the said section 4.

REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 38
Sections 2, 10.

38. This Act may be cited as the registration of Clubs Act
(Northern Ireland) 1967.

Section 10.

, owner(s) of the premises occupied [or to be occupied] by the
club, designated in the accompanying application, hereby declare that,
to the best of my/our knowledge and belief, the said club is to
be [or, in the case of an appliction by an existing club, has
been and is to be] conducted in good faith as a club, and not
mainly for the supply of intoxicating liquor.

Section 3.

, hereby certify that the < Club, of(full postal address of all premises used by the club)is registered under the Registration of Clubs Act (Northernreland) 1967.

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