THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 31, 1911.
made use of, except for the preparation of medicines or other articles pequired bonâ jide for medical or scientific purposes.
(2.) Every such person found to have such still without having entered into such bond and obtained such licence shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
5.-(1.) Every person who distils, makes, imports, sells, Distilling, disposes of, or deals in any adulterated liquor shall he &c. adulter- guilty of an offence against this Ordinance, and, if such ated Equor. adulterated liquor is proved to the satisfaction of a Magistrate to be injurious to health, he shall, on A second conviction, be liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding six months, besides any other penalties to which he may be liable under this Ordinance,
(2.) No person shall be convicted under this section if he shows, to the satisfaction of the Magistrate before whom he is charged, that he did not know that the liquor imported, sold, disposed of, or dealt in by him was adulterated, and that he could not have known it with any reasonable diligence.
Sale of Intoxicating Liquors.
out licence.
6.—(1.). No person shall sell or dispose of, or advertise Probibition or expose for sale, ang intoxicating liquor, either by of sale of wholesale or retail, within the Colony, or shall permit or liquor with- suffer any such intoxicating liquor to be sold or disposed of, or advertised or exposed for sale, in his house or other place within the Colony, without the appropriate licence under this Ordinance.
(2.) The delivery of any intoxicating liquor shall be taken, in any proceeding under this Ordinance, to be primâ facie evidence of sale and that money or other consideration was given for the same.
(3.) No person shall for and on behalf of any other person or persons who are not licensed to deal in or sell intoxicating liquor within the Colony accept or receive orders for, or import on commission or act as agent for the import of any intoxicating liquor into the Colony in quantities exceeding two gallons at one time without au appropriate licence under this Ordinance under which the licensee is permitted to sell such liquor as a dealer,
7. The holder of a Chinese wine and spirit shop licence Wholesale may also sell Chinese wines and spirits wholesale; but no and retail
sale of person shall sell intoxicating liquors by retail without a
liquor. licence to that effect, and this section shall apply to all retail sales of liquor to auy person on pretence that he is a customer for other goods, as well as to all sales of quantities exceeding two gallons with an understanding that part is to be returned, and generally to any act whatever which, under whatever pretence, constitutes a retail sale of intoxi- cating liquor.
Temporary Licences.
licence.
8. The Colonial Treasurer may at any time issue to any Issue of holder of a publican's or adjunct licence a temporary temporary licence for the sale of liquors at any public entertainment or on any public occasion, on payment of such foe, in cach case, as to the Governor may seem fit.
Publican's, Restaurant Adjunct Licences and Hotel
Keeper's Adjunct Licences,
9. (1.) All applications for the granting or transfer of Application licences shall be made to a Board of Licensing Justices, for licences Such Board shall consist of a Chairman and Vice-Chair- to be made man appointed by the Governor and of five other Justices to Licensing
Board. two of whom shall be appointed by the Governor and three be elected by the Justices of the Peace from among their number. Of the four Justices appointed by the Gov- ernor two shall be official and two shall be un-official Jus- tices. The Members of the Board shall hold office for
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