The Registration of Clubs (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

Endorsement of certificates of registration

44.—(1) Where a registered club or any official of a registered club is convicted of an offence under a provision of this Order specified in column 1 of Schedule 6, the court shall order there to be endorsed on the certificate of registration issued on the registered club particulars of the conviction and also—

(a) particulars of the offence, including the date when it was committed, and

(b) subject to paragraph (2), the penalty points to be attributed to the offence.

(2) A court shall not order penalty points attributed to an offence to be endorsed on the certificate of registration of a registered club if, in any proceedings for the offence,—

(a) in the case of the registered club, every official of the club at the time of the offence, or

(b) in any other case, the person convicted of the offence,

proves that he exercised due diligence to avoid the commission of such an offence.

(3) A court which orders the endorsement of a certificate of registration of a registered club under paragraph (1) shall order the secretary of the club to deliver the certificate of registration to the clerk of the court within a period specified in the order of the court and if the secretary of the registered club contravenes that court order he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or both.