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6. REGISTERED CLUBS
The statistics detailed in sections 3 and 5 exclude registered clubs, e.g. golf, bowling, and social clubs. Such clubs must register with a Sheriff Court, but must apply to their local licensing board for any regular extensions to permitted hours.
At 31 st December 2006 there were 2,285 registered clubs in Scotland, 53 fewer than at 31 st December 2005. Table 9 shows a breakdown of the number of clubs by the Sheriff Court with which they registered.
Eighty-seven per cent of clubs had a regular extension to permitted hours at 31 st December 2006, compared with 79 per cent in 2005.
Table 10 provides a breakdown of registered clubs by the approximate council area in which they are situated, although it should be noted that a club may be registered at a Sheriff Court outwith its council area. In some cases, it has been necessary to aggregate the figures for several council areas / Sheriff Courts, because the relevant Sheriff Courts will generally cover registrations from clubs in more than one council area.
The number of registered clubs per 10,000 population aged 18 years and over at 31 st December 2006 in Scotland was 6. This varied from 4 in Aberdeen (including Aberdeenshire) and Lanarkshire (North and South) to 12 in the Scottish Borders. Registered clubs made up 17 per cent of all on-sale outlets in Scotland ( Chart 6), although this proportion varied somewhat across the council areas. In Inverclyde, registered clubs accounted for 38 per cent of all such outlets, whilst in Highland the proportion was just 7 per cent (though as noted above, it may be that some clubs were registered in Sheriff Courts outwith their council area).
Chart 6 On-sale premises by type, including registered clubs, Scotland 2006
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