{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-clubs-northern-ireland-order-1987/article-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-clubs-northern-ireland-order-1987/article-33.json",
  "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/33",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Supply, etc., of intoxicating liquor to young persons",
  "text": "(1) A registered club shall not—\n(a) supply intoxicating liquor to a person under the age of 18; or\n(b) supply intoxicating liquor to any person for consumption by a person under the age of 18 in the premises of the club; or\n(c) permit any person under the age of 18 to consume intoxicating liquor in any part of the premises of the club.\n(2) If paragraph (1) is contravened—\n(a) the registered club; and\n(b) every person entered in the register of clubs as an official or member of the committee of management or governing body of the club at the time of the contravention; and\n(c) the person supplying the intoxicating liquor or, as the case may be, permitting the consumption of the intoxicating liquor;\nshall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.\n(3) In any proceedings for an offence by reason of a contravention of paragraph (1) it shall be a defence for a person to prove—\n(a) the contravention occurred without his consent or connivance and that he exercised due diligence to prevent it; or\n(b) that he had good reason to believe that the person under the age of 18 had attained that age.",
  "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/33",
    "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."
}