Registration of Clubs (Ireland) Act 1904
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1904 c. 9 |
| Year | 1904 |
Registration of Clubs (Ireland) Act, 1904
(4 Edw. 7.) CHAPTER 9.
An Act to provide for the Registration of Clubs in Ireland, and for other purposes connected therewith.
[15th August 1904]
B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Register of clubs to be kept.
(1) From and after the commencement of this Act a register shall be kept by every petty sessions clerk (hereinafter called ‘the registrar’, in which he shall enter the name of each club situate within his district to which a certificate of registration is granted under the provisions of this Act, which register shall be in a form prescribed by the Lord Lieutenant, and shall show the date of such certificate, whether such certificate is granted for the first time or on renewal, the address of the premises to which the certificate is applicable, and the names and addresses of the officials and the committee of management or governing body of the club, and whether the club is tenant or the proprietor and occupier of the said premises. The register and copy of the rules lodged with the registrar shall at all reasonable hours be open to inspection without fee, in the Dublin Metropolitan Police district by a superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan Police or any constable authorised by him in writing, and elsewhere in Ireland by a district inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary or any constable so authorised by him, or in any place by any officer of the Inland Revenue, and in any place by any person on payment of a fee of one shilling.
(2) The registration of a club under this Act shall not constitute the club licensed premises or authorise any sale of exciseable liquors therein which would otherwise be illegal.
2 Application for registration.
(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.
3 Grant and renewal of certificate of registration.
(1) The registrar shall forthwith give notice of such application, where the club is situate in the Dublin Metropolitan Police District, to a superintendent of police of that District, and, where the club is situate elsewhere in Ireland, to the district inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and, it no objections are taken as hereinafter provided, the court shall, if satisfied that the application has been duly made as aforesaid and that the rules of the club are in conformity with the provisions of this Act, grant the application.
(2) It shall be competent for such superintendent of police or district inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary, on receiving such notice, and for any person resident in the parish in which the club premises are situate, to lodge objections to the grant or renewal of the certificate on any of the grounds of objection specified in this Act. Such objections shall be lodged by the objectors with the registrar within ten days of the receipt or publication of the notice of application, and at the same time a copy of the objections shall be sent by them to the secretary of the club applying for the grant or renewal of a certificate.
(3) The court shall, as soon as may be, hear parties upon the application and objections, and may order such inquiry as it thinks fit, and thereafter shall grant or refuse the application. Upon the grant of any such application the court shall cause the entries required by this Act to be made in the register, and thereupon the registrar shall issue to the applicant, in or as nearly as may be in the form set out in the Second Schedule annexed hereto, a certificate of registration. Such certificate so issued shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, remain in force for a period of twelve months from the date of issue.
(4) The court shall have power to order costs and expenses to be paid by the unsuccessful party, where objection has been taken to the granting or renewal of a certificate, in like manner as in any case of summary jurisdiction where an order is made for payment of money not being in the nature of a penalty for an offence.
(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act as to the duration of a certificate, where a renewal has been applied for, the current certificate shall remain in force pending the final decision of the court, but not exceeding three months, unless the court shall in its discretion extend such time to a further period not exceeding three months.
(6) A club failing to make application for renewal of a certificate, by the date at or previous to which such application must in terms of this Act be made, shall not be ranted such renewal unless the court is satisfied that such failure was due to inadvertence.
(7) A club may make application for a certificate of registration at any time after the first day of November one thousand nine hundred and four and before the commencement of this Act, and no club which has made such application shall be deemed to be an unregistered club pending the final decision of the court on such application, and any application so made shall for the purposes of this section be deemed to have been made on the first day of January one thousand nine hundred and five.
4 Club rules qualifying for registration.
4. In order that any club may be eligible to be registered...
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