Registration of Clubs (Ireland) Act, 1904

Search warrant to enter club.

6.—(1) If a justice of the peace of any county or borough or divisional justice of the Dublin Metropolitan Police District is satisfied by information on oath that there is reasonable ground for supposing that any registered club is so managed or carried on as to constitute a ground of objection to the renewal of its certificate in terms of the immediately preceding section, or that an offence under this Act has been or is being committed in any registered club, or that any exciseable liquor is sold or supplied, or kept for sale or supply, on the premises of an unregistered club, he may grant a search warrant to any constable or constables named therein.

(2) A search warrant granted under this section shall authorise the constable or constables named therein to enter the club at any time, if need be by force, and to inspect the premises of the club, to take the names and addresses of any persons found therein and to seize any books and papers relating to the business of the club.

(3) In the event of any person or persons found in said premises refusing to give their respective names and addresses, when requested by any such constable, or giving false names or addresses, such person or persons so doing shall be liable severally on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds.