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38. Sufficient flush sanitary apparatus and wash basins with hot and cold water shall be supplied to the satisfaction of the Council. An adequate supply of clean towels shall be available at all times.
39. Employees shall wear clean washable overalls of white or the colour customary to the trade concerned.
40. No person shall be employed in handling uncovered goods until he has been passed "free from infectious disease" by a Health Officer. Such specimens and information as the Health Officer may require to reach his decision shall be supplied by the employee.
41. All fittings, utensils and implements of the trade shall be of polished impervious material and of a design approved by the Council except in the case of a special fitting, utensil or implement approved by the Council.
42. Refrigerated or gas storage for perishable goods must be of a design approved by the Council.
43. The licensee shall report immediately to the Chairman of the Council any case of sickness among his employees.
Hawkers.
A. General and Licensing.
1. These by-laws shall not apply to any hawker in the New Territories, except New Kowloon.
2. In these by-laws,
(a) "Hawker" means any person who trades in any street or public thoroughfare or goes from place to place, or goes on board any vessel, selling or exposing for sale any goods, wares or merchandise immediately to be delivered, or exposing samples or patterns of any goods, wares or merchandise to be afterwards delivered, or selling or offering for sale his skill in handicraft, except a person selling or seeking orders for goods, wares or merchandise to or from persons who are dealers therein and who buy to sell again.
(b) "Place" includes any house, shop, room, office, boat, vehicle or vessel, or any erection movable or otherwise, or any spot on land or water.
(c) "Licence" means a valid licence of the appropriate class, as hereinafter provided, issued to a hawker by the Council under the hand of the Secretary of the Council in accordance with these by-laws.
3. No person shall carry on the trade of a hawker except under and in accordance with a licence.
4. There shall be five classes of licence for hawkers, the annual fees for which shall be as set forth in the following table, namely:-
Licence
Hawker (stallholder)
do.
(itinerant)
do.
(steamships)
do.
(native craft)
do.
(newspaper)
Fee
$24
$ 4
$24
$ 4
$ 1
5. The forms of such licences shall be respectively those in Forms Appendix. Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in the Appendix to these by-laws.
6. The trade of every licensed hawker shall be strictly limited
to the class of his licence.
7. Every licence shall expire on the 30th day of September follow- ing the date on which it is granted.
Forms 1-5.