Rights of Entry to and Exclusion from Public Houses.

Rights of Entry to and Exclusion from Public HousesRights of Entry
From time to time licensed premises will be visited by representatives of various authorities seeking to ensure that matters of possible concern to them are being addressed within licensed premises.

Irrespective of whether a right of entry exists, the prudent licensee will exercise a judgment as to how that request for entry is dealt with.

In any event, Police Officers have a right to enter a public house either at any time if they suspect that an offence against the Licensing Law is being committed or is about to be committed during permitted hours (or any extension thereto) and thirty minutes afterwards for the purpose of preventing or detecting offences against Licensing Law, even though there are no grounds to suspect that such offences are actually taking place or are about to take place.

Officers from Customs & Excise have a right to enter a public house in certain circumstances but if entry is demanded at night, the relevant Officers must be accompanied by a Police Officer.Rights of Exclusion

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