{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-clubs-northern-ireland-order-1987/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-clubs-northern-ireland-order-1987/note.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": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order—\n(a) provides for clubs to be registered by a county court and establishes a procedure for these registrations;\n(b) provides for general permitted hours in registered clubs similar to the permitted hours in licensed premises;\n(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;\n(d) makes it an offence to be drunk or to permit drunkenness in a registered club;\n(e) makes new provision in respect of the right of the police to enter and inspect club premises; and\n(f) otherwise consolidates the statutory provisions relating to the registration of clubs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1987/1278/note",
    "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."
}