(1)The clerk to the justices of every petty sessional division shall keep a register of all such clubs within the division.
(2)The register shall be in a form prescribed by the Secretary of State, and shall contain—
(a)the name and objects of the club ;
(b)the address of the club ;
(c)the name of the secretary;
(d)the number of members ;.
(e)the rules of the club relating to—'
(i)the election of members and the admission of temporary and honorary members and of guests;
(ii)the terms of subscription and entrance fee, if any;
(iii)the cessation of membership;
(iv)the hours of opening and closing; and
(v)the mode of altering the rules.
(3)The secretary of every such club shall, in the month of January nineteen hundred and three, and in the month of January in each succeeding year, furnish to the clerk to the justices a return, signed by the secretary, giving the above-mentioned particulars, together with a signed statement that there is kept upon the club premises a register of the names and addresses of the club members, and a record of the latest payment of their subscriptions.
(4)Where after the commencement of this Act a new club requiring registration is about to be opened the secretary shall, before the opening of the club, furnish a return, signed by him, to the clerk to the justices giving the above-mentioned particulars.
(5)The clerk to the justices shall keep the register of clubs corrected up to date in accordance with the returns furnished by the secretaries, and the register shall, at all reasonable hours, be open to the inspection of an inspector or superintendent of police, or an officer of the inland revenue, without fee, and of any person on payment of a fee not exceeding one shilling.
(6)A fee of five shillings shall be payable to the clerk to the justices on each return made by the secretary of a club.
(7)In the application of this section to Oxford, the Registrar of the Court of the Chancellor of the University shall be substituted for the clerk to the justices in the case of any club mainly composed of members past or present of the University.