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Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Sale and supply of alcohol generally - Licensing generally, requirements on licensees, and conditions - Other restrictions and requirements

60: Sale and supply in clubs to members and guests only

You could also call this:

“Clubs can only sell alcohol to members and their guests.”

If you are at a club that has a licence to sell alcohol, you can only buy alcohol if you are an authorised customer. You are an authorised customer if you are a member of the club, or if you are visiting with a member, or if you are an authorised visitor from another club.

If a club has a licence to sell alcohol to drink on the premises and also to take away, you can only buy alcohol to take away if you are an authorised customer.

You are a member of a club if you have agreed in writing to follow the club’s rules and the club says you are a member. An authorised visitor is someone from another club that has an arrangement with the club you are visiting, so they can visit and buy alcohol.

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Part 2 Sale and supply of alcohol generally
Licensing generally, requirements on licensees, and conditions: Other restrictions and requirements

60Sale and supply in clubs to members and guests only

  1. The holder of a club licence must ensure that no alcohol is sold or supplied to any person for consumption on the premises unless the person is—

  2. an authorised customer; or
    1. if the licence issued subject to a condition allowing alcohol to be sold or supplied to people of that kind, a person who is on the premises at the invitation of an authorised visitor who is also on the premises.

      1. If a club licence and an off-licence are held for the same premises, the holder must ensure that no alcohol is sold or supplied to any person for consumption off the premises unless the person is an authorised customer.

      2. In this section,—

        authorised customer, in relation to premises a club licence is held for, means a person who—

        1. is a member of the club concerned; or
          1. is on the premises at the invitation of, and is accompanied by, a member of the club concerned; or
            1. is an authorised visitor

              authorised visitor, in relation to premises a club licence is held for, means a member of some other club with which the club concerned has an arrangement for reciprocal visiting rights for members

                member, in relation to a club, means a person who—

                1. has expressly agreed in writing to comply with the club's rules; and
                  1. is recognised as a member of the club by those rules.