Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2021

Prohibition on self-service and supply by vending machines

39.—(1) Before Article 32 of the Registration of Clubs Order (and the preceding cross-heading) insert—

“Self-service and vending machines

Prohibition on self-service and supply by vending machines

31C.— (1) A registered club must not supply intoxicating liquor for consumption in the club premises in a form which would enable the member or guest to whom it is supplied (or a member or guest that person is with) to operate the dispenser of the liquor.

(2) A registered club must not supply by means of a vending machine in the club premises intoxicating liquor for consumption in the premises.

(3) The activities prohibited by this Article include making intoxicating liquor available for consumption in the premises of a registered club which, in the absence of an official, manager or servant employed in the club, members or guests are trusted by the committee of management or governing body of the club—

(a) to pay for by placing money in a container, or by some other process, which the club has provided for that purpose, or

(b) to agree to pay for by recording by a process which the club has provided for that purpose the intoxicating liquor appropriated.

(4) If paragraph (1) or (2) is contravened the registered club is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.”.

(2) In Part 1 of Schedule 6 to the Registration of Clubs Order (penalty points for offences punishable with level 3 fine), at the appropriate place insert—

“31C(4)

Supplying intoxicating liquor in a form which enables self-service or by means of vending machine

3-4”