The Registration of Clubs (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

Prohibition of supply, etc., of intoxicating liquor outside permitted hours

Prohibition of supply, etc., of intoxicating liquor outside permitted hours

22.—(1) Except as permitted by or under this Order, intoxicating liquor shall not be supplied, obtained or consumed in the premises of a registered club except during the permitted hours.

(2) If paragraph (1) is contravened—

(a) the registered club; and

(b) the person supplying, obtaining or consuming the intoxicating liquor; and

(c) any other person permitting that person to supply, obtain or consume the intoxicating liquor;

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

Closing of bar outside permitted hours

23.—(1) Any bar on the premises of a registered club shall be kept closed except during the permitted hours.

(2) If paragraph (1) is contravened the registered club shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a tine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

General permitted hours

24.—(1) Subject to the succeeding provisions of this Part, the permitted hours in a registered club other than a nightworkers club are the hours—

(a) on week-days, other than Good Friday or Christmas Day, from half past 11 in the morning to 11 in the evening; and

(b) on Good Friday from 5 in the afternoon to 11 in the evening; and

(c) on Sunday or Christmas Day from half past 12 in the afternoon to 10 in the evening.

(2) The hours for the supply of intoxicating liquor in a nightworkers club shall be fixed by the county court on the application for the grant of registration and may be varied by a court of summary jurisdiction on renewal of the registration and the hours so fixed or varied shall—

(a) not exceed the total of—

(i) on week days, other than Good Friday or Christmas Day, 11½;

(ii) on Good Friday, 6;

(iii) on Sunday and Christmas Day, 9½; and

(b) provide for a break of at least 2 consecutive hours between 2 in the afternoon and 5 in the afternoon on Good Friday; and

(c) not include any period between 1 in the morning and 6 in the morning of any day.