Offences by officials of registered clubs

Where an order has been made that a registered club is being so managed or carried on as to constitute a ground for striking the club off the register then, if the following grounds or any of them are specified in the order that, (a) it is not conducted in good faith as a club, or is kept or habitually used for any unlawful purpose, or mainly for the supply of excisable (b) there is frequent drunkenness on the club premises or persons are frequently seen to leave the club premises in a state of intoxication, or the club is conducted in a disorderly manner; or (c) persons who are not members are habitually admitted to the club merely for the purpose of obtaining excisable liquor, every person entered in the register of clubs as an official or a member of the committee of management or governing body of that club shall, unless he satisfies the court that the club was so managed or carried on without his knowledge or against his consent, be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding, for a first offence two hundred dollars, for a second offence, whether in connection with the same or another club, to a fine not exceeding four hundred dollars and for a third or subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.