Club rules qualifying for registration

(1) In order that a club may be eligible for registration, the rules of the club shall provide that, (a) the business and affairs of the club shall be under the management of a committee or governing body consisting of members of the club elected for not less than a year by the general body of members, and subject in whole or in a specified proportion, to annual re-election and that no member of the committee or governing body, and no member of or servant employed in the club, shall have any personal interest in the sale, or in the profits arising from the sale, of excisable liquor therein; (b) the committee or governing body shall hold periodical meetings; (c) the names and addresses of persons proposed as ordinary members of the club shall be displayed at a conspicuous place in the club premises for at least a week before their election, and an interval of not less than two 15 weeks shall elapse between nomination and election of ordinary members; (d) all members shall be elected by the whole body of members or by the committee or governing body, with or without specially added members; (e) there shall be a defined entrance fee and subscription payable by members in advance; (f) correct accounts and books shall be kept showing the financial affairs and receipts and disbursements of the club; (g) no person resident within the limits of any town in which a club is situate shall visit the club as a visitor, (i) in the case of a members’ club, oftener than three times in every month; (ii) in the case of a proprietary club, oftener than twice in any one week, Provided that the Commissioner of Police may, upon an application in writing addressed to him and signed by the secretary of the club, authorise in writing the admission of such persons to any registered club on a special occasion, and the visit of any person on such special occasion shall not be a visit within the intendment of subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph; (h) a member who introduces a visitor to a club shall, immediately on the admission of the visitor to the club premises, enter his own name and the name and address of the visitor and the date of each visit in a book which shall be kept for the purpose, and a visitor shall not before such entry be supplied with excisable liquor on the club premises, and thereafter only on the invitation, at the expense and in the company of, a member; (i) in the case of a members’ club, no excisable liquor shall be supplied or sold for consumption off or outside the premises of the club; (j) no persons shall be allowed to become honorary or temporary members of the club, or be relieved of the payment of the regular entrance fee or subscription, except those possessing certain qualifications defined in the rules, and subject to conditions and regulations prescribed therein; (k) no person under eighteen years of age shall be admitted a member of the club unless the club is primarily devoted to some athletic purpose and in that case no excisable liquor shall be supplied or sold to any such person; (l) no person shall be or become ineligible for membership or admission as a guest on the ground that he is or is not of a particular colour, race or creed. (2) It shall not be necessary that the rules of a proprietary club should contain any of the matters referred to in subsection (1) (a), (c), (d) and (e) of this section.