Part XII Protection of Persons under Eighteen and other Provisions as to Conduct of Licensed Premises and Licensed Canteens.

Preservation of order

174 Power to exclude drunkards, etc., from licensed premises.

(1)

Without prejudice to any other right to refuse a person admission to premises or to expel a person from premises, the holder of a justices’ licence F1or a relevant person may refuse to admit to, or may expel from, the licensed premises any person who is drunken, violent, quarrelsome F2and the holder of a justices’ licence may refuse to admit to, or may expel from, the licensed premises any person disorderly, or whose presence in the licensed premises would subject the licence holder to a penalty under this Act.

(2)

If any person liable to be expelled from licensed premises under this section, when requested by the holder of the justices’ licence or his agent or servant or F3(as the case may be) the relevant person or any agent or servant of his or byany constable to leave the premises, fails F4without reasonable excuse to do so, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding F5level 1 on the standard scale.

(3)

Any constable shall, on the demand of the holder of a justices’ licence or his agent or servant F6or (as the case may be) a relevant person or any agent or servant of his, help to expel from the licensed premises any person liable to be expelled from them under this section, and may use such force as may be required for the purpose.

F7(4)

In this section “relevant person” means any person who works in licensed premises in a capacity, whether paid or unpaid, which gives him authority to prevent such drunkenness or such conduct as is mentioned in section 172A(1) of this Act.