Supplying and keeping excisable liquor in unregistered club

(1) Every person who, (a) supplies or sells to any member or other person; (b) purchases or consumes; (c) authorises the sale or supply, or the purchase of; or (d) keeps or has in his possession, any excisable liquor in any unregistered club commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both such fine and term of imprisonment. (2) If any excisable liquor is kept for supply or sale on the premises of an unregistered club, the liquor and the vessels containing it may be seized by any police officer under a warrant from a magistrate, granted after examination on oath of a credible witness to the fact that the liquor is so kept, and every officer and member of the club shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding, for a first offence two hundred and fifty dollars, for a second offence five hundred dollars and for a third or subsequent offence one thousand dollars, unless he proves to the satisfaction of the court that the liquor was so kept without his knowledge or against his consent, and on the conviction the liquor and the vessels containing it shall be forfeited. 25