The Registration of Clubs (Notice relating to Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 No. 27


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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2012 No. 27

Registration Of Clubs

The Registration of Clubs (Notice relating to Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

Made

30th January 2012

Coming into operation

1st May 2012

The Department for Social Development makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 34A (2) and (3) of the Registration of Clubs (Northern Ireland) Order 1996(1) and now vested in it(2):

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Registration of Clubs (Notice relating to Age) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 and shall come into operation on 1st May 2012.

Form and dimensions of Notice

2. A notice under Article 34A of The Registration of Clubs (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 must-

(a)contain the information specified in the Schedule; and

(b)be contained in a document the dimensions of which are no less than 297mm in length and 210mm in width.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 30th January 2012.

(L.S.)

Michael Daly

A senior officer of the Department for Social Development

Regulation 2

SCHEDULENOTICE RELATING TO AGE

It is an offence to supply intoxicating liquor to a person under the age of 18 on these premises.

It is an offence to supply intoxicating liquor to any person for consumption by a person under the age of 18 on these premises.

It is an offence for a person under the age of 18 to obtain or consume intoxicating liquor on these premises.

It is an offence for any person to obtain intoxicating liquor for a person under the age of 18 on these premises.

Where there is doubt as to whether a person is aged 18 years or over, intoxicating liquor will not be supplied to the person on these premises except on production of evidence showing the person to be 18 or over. Acceptable proof of age documents are:

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations prescribe the notice relating to age that registered clubs must display in those areas of club premises where intoxicating liquor is supplied; the information to be contained in the notice in relation to offences concerning the supply to, obtaining or consumption of intoxicating liquor by persons under 18 years of age; and the list of acceptable proof-of-age documents where there is doubt as to whether a person is aged 18 years or over.

(1)

S.I. 1996/3159 (N.I. 23); Article 34A was inserted by Section 9 of the Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 ( c.18 (N.I.))

(2)

See Article 8(b) of and Part II of Schedule 6 to the Departments (Transfer and Assignment of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 1999 ( S.R. 1999 No. 481)


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