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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 31, 1911.
Restriction
of right of action for liquor sold.
(g.) The licensee shall not employ any person to
sell or dispose of any liquors outside of his licensed premises, nor shall he allow or suffer any liquors to be so disposed of on his account; (2.) In the case of the business of every licensed pub- lican the following conditions shall also apply:-
(7.) The licensee excepted, no woman whether be- longing to the licensee's family or not, shall be permitted to serve or act in any capacity in the bar-room or in any room directly opening out of the bar-room,
(7.) The standard of quality of spirits as fixed by the Governor-in-Council shall be declared on
the label of each bottle.
It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council from time to time to add to, alter, amend or repeal the regula- tions contained in this section.
23. No licensed publican or adjunct licensee shall maintain any action for, or recover any debt or demand on account of, intoxicating liquor, unless such debt has bonâ fide been contracted at one time to the amount of five dollars or upwards, nor shall any item in any account for such liquor be allowed where the liquor bona fide delivered at one time does not amount to the full sum of five dollars, nor shall any claim be allowed against any seaman or soldier in His Majesty's Service for debt for intoxicating liquor supplied: Provided always that nothing herein contained shall extend to prevent any innkeeper from keeping an account with a lodger in which any charge for liquors may be included, and recovering the amount thereof in a Court of Justice.
Prohibition of taking pledge for liquor.
Measures or weights for
General Provisions,
24. No person licensed under this Ordinance shall take or receive in payment or pledge for liquor or any enter- tainment whatever supplied in or out of his house any article or thing whatever, except money.
25. Every person licensed under this Ordinance shall sell and dispose of his liquors by the measures or weights- sale of liquor. legalized in this Colony and not otherwise, except when the quantity is less than half a pint or except when the liquor is sold in bottles, and shall also measure or weigh such liquors in the presence of any customer who may require him to do so,
Power to search suspected premises.
Drinking in unlicensed
place.
Prohibition
of payment of journey- nien, etc., at place
where liquor
s sold.
28. If any person is convicted of unlawfully retailing any intoxicating liquor, the house and premises of such person and the house, lodging, shop, or warehouse where such offence has been committed, and any court or yard connected therewith shall be liable to be searched, at any time of the day or night, by any Police officer, with or without a warrant, for six months next after such convic- tion, provided that the same or any part thereof is then occupied by the person so convicted.
27. Whenever any Police officer finds aby persou drinking in any place in which any intoxicating liquor is sold or disposed of by retail, and the licence for such sale is not, on demand, produced to such Police officer, it shall be lawful for such Police officer to apprehend all such persons so found drinking there; and every such person so found drinking shall, if such place is in fact unlicensed, forfeit and pay, ou summary conviction, for every such offence a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, unless such person informs against such unlicensed person or volun- tarily becomes a witness against him, in respect of such act of selling and retailing.
23. No master or other person employing journeymen, workmen, servants, or labourers, and not being the licensed keeper of a house in which any intoxicating liquor is sold or disposed of by retail, shall pay or cause any payment to be made to any such journeyman, workman. servant, or labourer in or at any such house.