REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967

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REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 2



2.(1) Where a club desires to obtain a certificate or the renewal of a
certificate, the secretary of the club shall, not later than 30th November in
any year, lodge with the clerk of petty sessions (in this Act referred to as
"the registrar") for the petty sessions district in which are situate the
premises for which the certificate is sought or to which the certificate to be
renewed relates

(a)an application signed by the chairman or secretary of the club stating

(i)the name of the club;

(ii)the objects of the club;

<(iii)the address of the premises;


<(iv)the estimated maximum number of members of the club;


(v)where the premises are not owned by the club, the name and address of every
person beneficially entitled to receive any payment made by the club for the
use of the premises; and

<(vi)in the case of a nightworkers club, that the club is a nightworkers club;


(b)a copy of the rules of the club;

(c)a list containing the names and addresses of the officials and committee of
management or governing body of the club and the names of members of the club;

(d)subject to subsection (5), a map or plan of the premises and a description
of the accommodation, facilities and amenities provided by the club;

(e)where the premises are not owned by the club, a declaration in or as nearly
as may be in Form A set out in Schedule 1, which declaration shall be signed
by every person beneficially entitled to receive any payment made by the club
for the use of its premises or, where any such person is under any disability,
by his legal representative.

(2) On every application by a club for a certificate or for the renewal of a
certificate, the club shall pay to the registrar a court fee of [#10].

(3) A copy of the application and of all other documents which are required by
subsection (1) to be lodged with the registrar shall at the time of such
lodgment be sent by or on behalf of the club to the Ministry and to the
district inspector of the Royal Ulster Constabulary for the area in which the
club premises are situate.

(4) Where an application for a certificate or, as the case may be, for the
renewal of a certificate has been lodged with the registrar, the club shall,
in the month of November in the year in which the application is lodged, cause
to be published once in the Belfast Gazette and at least once in each of two
newspapers circulating in the locality in which the premises of the club are
situate a notice in such form and containing such information as may be
prescribed by regulations made by the Ministry subject to negative resolution.

(5) Subsection (1)(d) shall not apply in relation to an application for the
renewal of a certificate unless the premises have been structurally altered
since the date of the immediately preceding application whether for an
original certificate or the renewal of a certificate, so however that the
court hearing the application may, notwithstanding anything in this
subsection, require the production of the map or plan and the other
information mentioned in the said paragraph (d).

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REGISTRATION OF CLUBS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 2