COMMENTARY ON SECTIONS PART 7: Offences. Section 147 – Allowing sale of alcohol to children
234.This section provides that it is an offence knowingly to allow the sale (or in, the case of clubs, the supply) of alcohol to a child, on relevant premises (see the definition in section 159). Subsections (2) and (4) set out the categories of person who may commit the offence. These include any person who works at the premises in a capacity that gives him the authority to prevent the sale (or supply), and, in the case of a supply by or on behalf of a club, an officer or member of the club who is present at the time of the supply in a capacity that gives him authority to prevent that supply.