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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 31, 1911.
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Prohibition of distilling without
licence and provision for issue of distilling licence.
First Schedule: Form No. 1.
Second Schedule.
Issue of free licence for apothecary,
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"Licensed warehouse' means a place licensed by the Superintendent with the approval of the Governor for the warehousing of datiable liquors, "Import" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means to bring or canse to be brought into the Colony and the waters thereof either by land or sea.
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Export with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means to take or cause to be taken out of the Colony and the waters thereof by land or by sea.
"Ship" means any steam or sailing vessel, motor boat, junk, boat, sampan or any kind of craft used or adapted to be used either for the conveyance of persons or things by water or for occupation by persons or storage of things whether afloat or not. Superintendent means the Superintendent of Imports and Exports.
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Revenue Officer" means any person appointed to act as Revenue Officer under the provisions of this Ordinance.
· Native Reveune Officer" means any Revenue Officer
not of European race.
*Colony" includes the New Territories.
"The New Territories" mean the additional territories acquired under the Convention dated the 9th day of June, 1898, between Her Majesty Queen Victoria and His Majesty the Emperor of China for the enlargement of the limits of the Colony including the city of Kowloon,
New Kowloon" means that portion of the New Ter- ritories which is delineated and shewn upon a plan marked New Kowloon signed by the Director of Public Works and countersigned by the Governor and deposited in the Land Office of this Colony.
PART I-LICENCES.
Distillery Licences,
3.-(1.) No person shall make, distil, or rectify any spirits, or shall knowingly keep or have in his possession any still or other utensil or apparatus for making, distill- ing, or rectifying spirits, without a licence under this Ordinance.
(2.) The Captain Superintendent of Police may issue distillery licences, in the Form No. 1 in the First Schedule to this Ordinance, on each of which licences the fee specified in the Second Schedule to this Ordinance shall be payable in advance.
(3.) Such conditions as the Governor-in-Council may from time to time determine may be added to such licences.
(4.) Every licensed distiller may sell the liquor which he distils, but only in quantities exceeding two gallons of one liquor at one time, and such liquor so sold must not be consuined on the premises.
(5.) Every holder of a distillery licence under this Ordinance or under the New Territories Regulation Or- divance, 1910, shall permit the Superintendent or any Revenue Officer to enter the premises in which distillation is being carried ou at any time during the process of such distillation.
(1.) It shall be lawful for the Captain Superintend- ent of Police to issue a licence, free of all charge, to any
chemist, or
apothecary, chemist or druggist applying for the same, to druggist fo keep and use on his premises a still of not more than have still of eight gallons capacity for the purpose of his trade only : eight gallons Provided that every such person shall make a deposit of capacity,
one thousand dollars or give a bond to the Captain Superin- tendent of Police, with two sufficient sureties, in that sum, that the still shall not exceed eight gallons capacity, and that he will not make use of such still, or suffer it to he
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