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Clubs are organisations where members have joined together for social, sporting or political purposes and buy alcohol in bulk to supply in the club. A club premises certificate authorises a club to carry out club activities such as supplying alcohol and providing entertainment.
Clubs have special licence requirements as technically they only sell alcohol by retail to guests, as alcohol stock is owned by the members. Visitors to a club may be supplied with alcohol as long as they are genuine guests of a member of the club or the club collectively.
a person may not be given membership or membership privileges within two days of their application for membership
the club must be established and conducted in good faith
the club must have at least 25 members
alcohol is only supplied to members on the premises by the club
Additional conditions about the supply of alcohol are:
alcohol supplied by the club must be purchased by members of club who are over 18 years old and have been elected to do so by the members
nobody receives any commission, payment or other financial benefit when they purchase alcohol for the club.
Registered industrial and provident societies and friendly societies qualify if alcohol is purchased for and supplied by the club under the control of the members. Relevant miners' welfare institutes can also be considered. To find out whether your institute is eligible, please contact us.
There is no time-limit on the certificate (unless you ask for one). It lasts until you decide to give it up or you break the terms and the certificate is revoked.
Consumer complaints
If you have a complaint about a business with a club premises certificate, please contact us using the details on this page.
Once we've granted a certificate, an interested party may appeal if they feel that the application should have been refused or that we should have set conditions or limitations on the club's activities. They can also appeal against a review decision.
Any club member or interested party may ask us to review the certificate. We will share our response to these requests in a notice. You can appeal against the decision of a review.
Making changes
If you're only making make small changes to the situation described in the licence, you can apply for a minor variation
