Apply for a club premises certificate
You can get a club premises certificate if your club qualifies and you want to offer activities like selling alcohol or entertainment to your members and their guests.
Activities you can offer with this certificate:
- selling alcohol to club members and their guests
- providing regulated entertainment for club members and their guests, including:
- performances (plays)
- film showings
- indoor sports
- Boxing or wrestling (indoors or outdoors)
- live music
- recorded music
- dance
What makes a club qualify
To get a certificate, your club must meet these requirements:
- have a place that is regularly used for club activities
- only provide alcohol and entertainment to members and their guests
- have someone 18 or older, nominated by the club, who can serve or buy alcohol
- ensure no one profits from selling or buying alcohol
- make new members wait two days after applying before they get membership benefits
- be run genuinely and fairly
- have at least 25 members
Please wait for confirmation from the Licensing Team before showing your blue public notice or placing any ads in newspapers.
You will be charged a fee for this application. This will be based on the rateable value of the premises. If you are unsure of your rateable value this can be obtained from the Valuation Office.
Start the journey
More info about the journey
- a credit/debit card
- plan of the premises
- copy of the club rules
- a public notice must be placed at the premises for 28 days (the day after the application has been submitted).
- An advert must be placed in a local paper/newsletter within 10 days of submission of application. A copy of the public notice and the page containing the advertisement must be sent to the licensing authority.
When we get your application, we’ll check it to make sure everything is filled out correctly. If we need more information, we’ll call you.
After we accept a complete application, there’s a 28-day period when people can give feedback or object to it.
- If no objections are made, we will approve your application and mail you the club premises certificate.
- If there are objections that can't be resolved, your application will go to a Licensing subcommittee. This will happen within 20 working days after the objection period ends.
You’ll be notified at least 10 working days before the committee meeting.
We usually give you the decision on the same day as the meeting, and you’ll get a written confirmation afterward.