§ After Clause 14, insert the following new clause:
§ Sale of exciseable liquor in registered clubs to members of other clubs
§ (".—(1) Notwithstanding anything in the principal Act. the rules of a registered club may provide for the admission to the premises of the club of persons who are members of another club, and for the sale and supply of exciseable liquor to such persons by or on behalf of the club for consumption on the premises, if—
- (a) the other club is a registered club whose premises are in the locality and are temporarily closed; or
- (b) both clubs exist for learned, educational or political objects of a similar nature; or
- (c) each of the clubs is primarily a club for persons who are qualified by service or past service, or by any particular service or past service, in Her Majesty's Forces and are members of an organisation established by Royal Charter, and consists wholly or mainly of such persons; or
- (d) each of the clubs is primarily a club for persons who carry on the same trade, profession or occupation, and that trade, profession or occupation is the same in the case of either club; or
- (e) each of the clubs is a working men's club (that is to say, a club which is, as regards its purposes, qualified for registration as a working men's club under the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, and is a registered society within the meaning of that Act or of the Industrial and Provident Societies Act, 1893).
§ (2) Notwithstanding anything in any enactment, the authority of a certificate or licence shall not be required for such a sale of exciseable liquor as is mentioned in the foregoing subsection and, where the rules of a club provide as aforesaid, exciseable liquor may be supplied in the premises of the club to such persons as mentioned in that subsection and their guests for consumption on the premises, as it may to members of the club and their guests.")
§ Clause 15, page 15, line 12, after first ("the") insert ("sale or")
§ Clause 15, page 15, line 17, after ("the") insert ("sale or")
§ LORD CRAIGTONMy Lords, this new clause and the consequential Amendments follow the lines of the English 1961 Act. In all walks of life members of one club enjoy the facilities of membership of another club with similar interests, and there is nothing anti-social in including such a provision in club rules. But the decisions of some, though not all, sheriffs in Scotland have been against such a provision. So it is clearly right to clarify the law on this point. I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendments.—(Lord Craigton.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.