Registration of Clubs (Ireland) Act, 1904

Penalty for supplying and keeping exciseable liquor in unregistered club.

14 & 15 Vict. c. 90.

7.—(1) If any exciseable liquor is sold or supplied to any member or other person on the premises of an unregistered club, every person supplying or selling such liquor, every person who shall pay for such liquor and every person authorising the supply or sale of such liquor shall be liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding one month, or to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, or to both.

(2) If any exciseable liquor is kept for supply or sale on the premises of an unregistered club, the same, and the vessels containing the same, may be seized by the police under a warrant from a justice of the peace or divisional justice of the Dublin Metropolitan Police District, granted after examination on oath of a credible witness to the fact that such liquor is so kept, and every officer and member of the club shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding for a first offence seven pounds, for a second offence fifteen pounds and for a third or subsequent offence thirty pounds, unless he proves to the satisfaction of the court that such liquor was so kept without his knowledge or against his consent, and on such conviction such liquor and the vessels containing the same shall be forfeited and sold, and the proceeds thereof applied in like manner as a penal sum under the Fines Act (Ireland), 1851.