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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 26, 1935.

Ordinance No. 10 of 1899.

11.-(1) Every licence may on its expiration be renewed for further periods not exceeding one year at a time.

(2) Such renewal shall be endorsed by the Secretary of the Council on the original licence, and shall be subject to the same fee as the fee prescribed by these by-laws for such licence.

12. The Council may, on sufficient cause being shown to its satis- faction and subject to such conditions as it may think fit to impose, permit the transfer of a licence to any person or for any place other than that to whom or for which the licence was issued, and thereupon the Secretary of the Council shall endorse such transfer on the licence.

13. The Council may impose such special conditions in respect of any licence as the circumstances may require.

14. If the Council is satisfied that a licence granted or transferred t any person has been lost or destroyed, or accidentally defaced, it may issue to such person a duplicate of the licence on payment of a fee of 25 cents in the case of a newspaper hawker, $1 in the case of an itinerant or native craft hawker, and $5 in the case of a steam- ships or stallholder hawker.

15. No person shall alter, deface or make any erasure on a licence, and no person shall use, or have in his possession with a view to use, a licence on which an erasure has been made, or which has been altered or defaced in any way.

16. Every licence shall specify the kind or class of goods, wares of merchandise for the sale of which the licence is granted, and no licensed hawker shall sell anything of a nature or class other than that specified in such licence.

17. When a licence has been granted to any person in respect of any place, such person shall not carry on the trade of a hawker at any other place without an appropriate licence for such place and the written approval of the Council under the hand of the Secretary of the Council.

18. When hawking, every licensed hawker shall carry a valid licence issued to him, and shall produce and show the same to any sanitary inspector or police officer, and, in the case of a hawker's (steamships) or hawker's (native craft) licence, to any revenue officer, on demand. Such officer may retain such licence for examination or endorsement by the Council, and such licence shall, unless revoked, be returned to the licensee within a reasonable time.

19. No licence shall authorise any person to go on board any ship without the written permission of the master or officer in charge of such ship.

20. No licensed hawker shall hawk in the enclosure to any naval, military or air force premises or in the Man of War Anchorage on the North side of the City of Victoria as defined in Table M of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899.

21. Every licensed hawker shall collect and remove all refuse caused by his trade, and shall keep the implements of his trade in a clean and wholesome condition.

B. Licensed (itinerant) hawkers.

The following regulations shall apply only to licensed (itinerant) hawkers:

1. The Council shall when issuing an itinerant hawker's licence supply to the licensee a numbered licence board, and the holder of such licence shall when hawking carry and exhibit such board in a conspicuous position so that the number shall be at all times clearly visible.

2. No licensed itinerant hawker shall use or utter any cry, or make or use any other noise for the purpose of attracting attention to his trade, within the following roads, streets and areas:----

(1) in the City of Victoria:

(a) Bonham Road, Caine Road, Upper Albert Road and Kennedy Foad, and the whole area to the south thereof;

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