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PART VMISCELLANEOUS

Notification of alteration of rules of registered clubs

42.—(1) Where any alteration is made in the rules, the committee of management or the governing body of a registered club or the secretary of the club shall, within 14 days of the alteration, serve a notice giving particulars of the alteration upon the sub-divisional commander of the police sub-division in which the premises of the registered club are situated.

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

(3) Notwithstanding anything in Article 19(1)(a) of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order[S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26)] 1981 (time limit for summary proceedings), a court of summary jurisdiction shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine a complaint charging the commission of an offence under this Article provided that the complaint is made within 12 months from the date on which the alteration is made.