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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-clubs-northern-ireland-order-1987/article-26",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1987/1278",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Clubs (Northern Ireland) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-clubs-northern-ireland-order-1987",
  "path": "article/26",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Defence in respect of consumption of intoxicating liquor by certain persons outside permitted hours",
  "text": "In any proceedings under Article 20 for an offence of consuming, or permitting the consumption of, intoxicating liquor in the premises of a registered club outside the permitted hours or a period authorised under Article 25, it shall be a defence for the club or person charged to prove that such liquor was supplied by a person residing on those premises for consumption by him or his guests bona fide entertained by him at his own expense and that it was consumed by such persons in a part of those premises reserved for the use of the person residing on the premises.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1987/1278/article/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:55.157343+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}