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Explanatory note

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This Order—

(a)

provides for clubs to be registered by a county court and establishes a procedure for these registrations;

(b)

provides for general permitted hours in registered clubs similar to the permitted hours in licensed premises;

(c)

makes it an offence for a person under the age of 18 to be in the bar of a registered club or to be supplied with intoxicating liquor;

(d)

makes it an offence to be drunk or to permit drunkenness in a registered club;

(e)

makes new provision in respect of the right of the police to enter and inspect club premises; and

(f)

otherwise consolidates the statutory provisions relating to the registration of clubs.