# The Registration of Clubs (Northern Ireland) Order 1987, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1987/1278/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/registration-of-clubs-northern-ireland-order-1987/note
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