Intoxicating Liquor Act, 1988
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Search of clubs by member of Garda Síochána. |
43.—(1) If any member of the Garda Síochána is of opinion that there are reasonable grounds for supposing that any club registered under the Registration of Clubs (Ireland) Act, 1904 , is so managed or carried on as to constitute a ground of objection to the renewal of its certificate under that Act, or that an offence under that Act has been or is being committed in any such club, or that any excisable liquor is sold or supplied, or kept for sale or supply, on the premises of a club which is not registered under that Act, he may enter and search the premises of such club and take the names and addresses of any persons found therein. | |
(2) In the event of any person found in such premises refusing to give his name or address when requested by any such member of the Garda Síochána or giving a false name or address, such person so doing shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £50. | ||
(3) Every person who, by himself, or by any person in his employment or acting by his direction or with his consent, refuses or fails to admit any member of the Garda Síochána in the execution of his duty demanding to enter in pursuance of this section, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding— | ||
(a) £200, in the case of a first offence, or | ||
(b) £300, in the case of a second or any subsequent offence. |