(1)A miners’ welfare institute may be registered under this Part of this Act as a club subject to and in accordance with subsection (2) of this section, and in relation to such an institute while so registered this Act and any other enactment relating to the sale or supply of intoxicating liquor shall have effect, subject to that subsection, as if—
(a)the institute were a club occupying the premises of the institute and having for members the persons from time to time enrolled as members of the institute; and
(b)intoxicating liquor supplied or kept for supply by or on behalf of the trustees or managers in carrying on the institute to members or others were the liquor of the club supplied or kept for supply on behalf of the club.
(2)In relation to the registration of a miners’ welfare institute in respect of any premises of the institute sections 40 to 53 of this Act shall apply as they apply in the case of a club and premises occupied by the club, except that the following provisions and so much of any other provision as refers to any of them shall not apply, that is to say, subsections (2) to (4) of section 41, section 42 and paragraphs 5(c) and 6 to 8 of Schedule 5 to this Act.
(3)In this section “miners’ welfare institute” means an association organised for the social well-being and recreation of persons employed in or about coal mines (or of such persons in particular); but nothing in this section shall apply in relation to a miners’ welfare institute unless F1—
[F1(a)it is managed by a committee or board of which not less than two-thirds consists partly of persons appointed by or on the nomination of, or appointed or elected from among persons nominated by, a licensed operator or operators (within the meaning of the Coal Industry Act 1994) and partly of persons appointed by or on the nomination of, or appointed or elected from among persons nominated by, an organisation or organisations representing persons employed in or about coal mines;
(aa)in the case of an institute in relation to which either—
(i)the making of an appointment or nomination by a licensed operator, or
(ii)the making of an appointment or nomination by such an organisation as is mentioned in paragraph (a) above,
is not practicable or would not be appropriate, it is managed by a committee or board of which not less than two-thirds consists partly of persons employed or formerly employed in or about coal mines and partly of persons appointed by the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation or a body or person to which the functions of that Organisation have been transferred under section 12(3) of the Miners’ Welfare Act 1952; or]
(b)the premises of the institute are held on trusts to which section 2 of the M1Recreational Charities Act 1958 applies.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 56(3): for paragraph (a) and the word immediately preceding it, s. 56(3)(a)(aa) substituted (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 21, s. 67, Sch. 9 para. 8; S.I. 1994/2552, art. 2, Sch. 1
Marginal Citations
M11958 c. 17 (19).