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4. Every auctioneer, before beginning any auction, shall affix Name to be or suspend, or cause to be affixed or suspended, a ticket or board, exhibited containing his true and full personal and surname and residence at auctions. painted, printed, or written in large letters and Chinese characters publicly visible and legible, in some conspicuous part of the place or premises where the auction is held so that all persons may easily read the same, and shall also keep such ticket or board so affixed or suspended during the whole time of such auction held.

5. Any person acting as an auctioneer shall on demand of any Production European officer of police produce and show to such officer, or within of licence. twenty four hours produce and show to the officer on duty at the charge room at the Central Police Station, a proper licence to him granted under the Ordinance.

6. No licence taken out by any person to exercise or carry on Liquor and the trade or business of an auctioneer shall authorise such person tobacco. to deal in or sell, either on his own account or for the benefit of any other person, any liquor or tobacco for the dealing in or selling of which a licence is required under any Ordinance for the time being in force relating to the same, except upon premises in respect of which the owner of such liquor or tobacco shall have taken out and shall have in force at the time of the sale thereof the proper licence for the sale of such liquor or tobacco:

Provided that any

such licensed auctioneer may sell by auction, by sample, any such liquor or tobacco as aforesaid, if the owner thereof shall be duly licensed for the sale of such liquor or tobacco and provided also that the Superintendent of Imports and Exports may in his discretion authorise any licensed auctioneer to sell any such liquor or tobacco by auction where he shall be satisfied that the said liquor or tobacco is the property of a private person, and is not sold for profit or by way of trade.

7. The holder of every auctioneer's licence shall observe the Conditions. following conditions, and such special conditions as the licensing authority may in his discretion impose, which shall be endorsed on the licence:-

(1) Except with the written permission of the licensing authority. the licensee shall not transfer, lend or hire his licence to any person.

(2) No auction shall take place except between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.

PART III.-HAWKERS.

The regulations in this Part, and so much of the Ordinance as Exemp- makes it an offence to carry on the trade of a hawker except under tion of and in accordance with a licence shall not apply to any hawker in New the New Territories, except New Kowloon.

A. HAWKERS GENERALLY,

The following regulations shall apply to all licensed hawkers.

Territories, except New

Kowloon.

Classifica tion.

1. There shall be five classes of licence for hawkers, namely

(1) hawker's (itinerant) licence;

(2) hawker's (stallholders) licence;

(3) hawker's (native craft) licence;

(4) hawker's (steamships) licence; and

(5) hawker's (newspaper) licence.

2. The forms of such licences shall be respectively those in Forms. Forms Nos. 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, and 2E in the Appendix to these Appendix. regulations.

3. The trade of every licensed hawker is strictly limited to Trade the class of his licence: for instance, the holder of a hawker's limited (itinerant) licence, a hawker's (stallholders) licence, or a hawker's to class (native craft) licence may not carry on his trade on any steamship.

of licence.

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