Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1988
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Prohibited hours in clubs. |
26.—(1) The Act of 1927 is hereby amended by the substitution for section 56 (inserted by section 6 of the Act of 1960 and amended by section 6 of the Act of 1962) of the following section: | |
“56.—(1) In order that a club may be eligible to be registered under the Registration of Clubs Acts, 1904 to 1986, the rules of the club shall (in addition to the matters mentioned in section 4 of the Registration of Clubs (Ireland) Act, 1904 ) provide that, subject to the exceptions specified in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, no excisable liquor shall be supplied for consumption on the club premises to any person (other than a member of the club lodging in the club premises) or be consumed on the club premises by any person (other than a member of the club lodging in the club premises)— | ||
(a) on any weekday, before the hour of half-past ten o'clock in the morning, or | ||
(i) during a period of summer time, after the hour of half-past eleven o'clock in the evening, or | ||
(ii) during a period which is not a period of summer time, after the hour of eleven o'clock in the evening, or | ||
(b) on any Sunday, before the hour of half-past twelve o'clock in the afternoon or between the hours of two o'clock and four o'clock in the afternoon or after the hour of eleven o'clock in the evening, or | ||
(c) on St. Patrick's Day, where that day falls on a weekday, before the hour of half-past twelve o'clock in the afternoon or after the hour of eleven o'clock in the evening, or | ||
(d) at any time on Christmas Day or Good Friday. | ||
(2) Nothing contained in the Registration of Clubs Acts, 1904 to 1986, or contained by virtue only of the operation of subsection (1) of this section, in the rules of a club registered under those Acts shall operate to prohibit the supplying for consumption on the club premises of excisable liquor to any person or the consumption of excisable liquor on the club premises by any person— | ||
(a) during a period of summer time, between the hours of half-past eleven o'clock in the evening on any weekday and half-past twelve o'clock in the morning on the following day, or | ||
(b) during a period which is not a period of summer time, between the hours of eleven o'clock in the evening on any weekday and half-past twelve o'clock in the morning on the following day, or | ||
(c) on any Sunday, between the hours of two o'clock and three o'clock in the afternoon, or | ||
(d) on Christmas Day, between the hours of one o'clock and three o'clock in the afternoon or the hours of seven o'clock and ten o'clock in the evening, | ||
if, in each case, the excisable liquor is— | ||
(i) ordered by that person at the same time as a substantial meal is ordered by him, | ||
(ii) consumed at the same time as and with the meal, | ||
(iii) supplied and consumed in the portion of the club premises usually set apart for the supply of meals, and | ||
(iv) paid for at the same time as the meal is paid for. | ||
(3) In this section— | ||
‘period of summer time’, ‘weekday’ and ‘Sunday’ have the meanings assigned to them by section 1 of this Act.”. | ||
(2) (a) For the purposes of the Registration of Clubs Acts, 1904 to 1986, the rules of a club which at the date of the passing of this Act is registered under those Acts, shall, during the transitional period, be deemed to be in conformity with the provisions of section 56, as amended by this section, of the Act of 1927. | ||
(b) In this subsection “transitional period” means the period beginning on the date of the passing of this Act and ending, either, when the certificate of registration of the club which is in force two months after that date expires, or, if it should sooner happen, when the rules of the club are brought into conformity with the said section 56, as so amended. |