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These rules have been drawn up to enable the club members to derive maximum benefit from the club while complying with the legislation governing our club licence.

1. Club membership is restricted to Dublin City University students, staff and graduates, and to employees of DCU companies and companies located on the campus.
2. All members are required to produce their membership card on request.
3. Bona fide visitors must be signed in by a member, who must also provide his or her own name or number. By 'bona fide' visitors is meant visitors who are not eligible to become members. Normally, a member may sign in one visitor and exceptionally, up to three. Large groups which have a specific identify (e.g. visiting football teams, conference groups, etc.) may be signed in by any member by agreement with the Centre Manager.
4. The membership fee per academic year (or part thereof) is 2 pounds for students and 5 pounds for others. In the case of students who do not join at registration, or staff members who do not avail of the deduction - at - source facility during September, the membership fee will be 3 pounds and 6 pounds respectively.
5. Members are not permitted to bring their own drink into the club premises.
6. Under the terms of the law governing club licences, members are not allowed bring alcoholic drink out of the licenced premises (i.e. the lounge and function room). Thus for example, alcoholic drinks may not be brought to the games room or TV room, even though these are in the same building.
7. While smoking is permitted in the lounge and function room, smoking is prohibited in all other areas of the building (e.g. toilets, the games room, TV room, meeting room, shops), which are covered by the general University regulations and legal sanctions. Members are urged to exercise particular care in the lounge and function room in order to protect the carpet, wooden floor and furniture from cigarette burns.
8. All members must vacate the licensed premises before the end of the legal ?drinking-up time? (11.30 p.m. during the winter licensing hours period, 12 midnight during the summer licensing hours period). This is because the usual legislation governing licensed premises apply to the City Centre Club. There are no special dispensations!
9. The conditions under which the function room may be booked, as agreed by the Social Centre Management Committee, are contained in the handout entitled ?Use of Function Room?, available from the Centre Manager. Please note that bookings must be made at least two weeks in advance, and not more than four weeks in advance.