Registration of Clubs (Ireland) Act, 1904

Application for registration.

2.—(1) The secretary of any club desiring a certificate of registration shall lodge with the registrar for the petty sessions district in which the club is situate an application signed by the chairman or secretary of the club, stating the name and object of the club and the address of the premises occupied by the club, and shall publish the notice of such application once in a daily newspaper circulating in the locality. Such application shall be accompanied by two copies of the rules of the club, by a list containing the names and addresses of the officials and committee of management or governing body and the names of the members and by a certificate in or as nearly as may be in the form set out in the First Schedule annexed hereto, which certificate shall be signed where the premises are situate within the county borough of Dublin by two justices of the peace for the said county borough, and where the premises are situate in any part of the Dublin Metropolitan Police District which is not comprised in the county borough of Dublin by two justices of the peace for the county of Dublin, and where the premises are situate elsewhere in Ireland by two justices of the peace sitting in petty sessions for the district within which such premises are situate, and shall also, where such premises are not owned by the club, be signed by the owner of such premises, or, where the owner is under any legal disability, by his legal representative.

(2) The secretary of any club desiring a renewal of the certificate shall, at a date not later than twenty-one days prior to its expiry, make application to the registrar for such renewal in the same manner and subject to the same incidents and publication as in the case of an original application for registration.

(3) Every club applying either for an original certificate or for a renewal shall, as a condition of registration, make payment to the registrar of a fee of five shillings.