738
Food Shops.
1. Except under and in accordance with a licence granted by the Council, no person shall within the City of Victoria cr the Harbour, or in Kowloon or New Kowloon, or in Shaukiwan, Quarry Bay, Wong Nei Chung, Tai Hang, Whitfield, Tsin Shui Ma Tau, Fu Tau Fat, Ma Shan Ha, Sai Wan Ho, Chung Lung, Tsat Tsze Mui, Pokfulam, Aberdeen or Aplichau, or in such other places as shall be named in any Government Notification, sell or expose for sale in any place not being a public market within the meaning of this Ordinance any articles of food for man usually sold or exposed for sale in a public market.
2. The following fees shall be charged and paid for licences to sell in premises outside a public market articles of food commonly sold in such market
Beef and Mutton
Pork
Fish
Poultry
Fruit and Vegetables
$10 per quarter;
$30
$60
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$60
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$10
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Provided that in the following areas, namely, Tsin Shui Ma Tau, Fu Tau Fat, Ma Shan Ha, Chung Lung, Pokfulam, Aberdeen and Aplichau, and such other districts as may from time to time be deter- mined by the Council and notified in the Gazette, the fee shall in every case be $3 per quarter only.
3.-(1) No person shall within the Hill District that is to say any part of the Island of Hong Kong above the 700-feet contour—
(a) keep any shop for the sale of any article of food; or (b) expose or offer with a view to sale any article of food; or (c) warehouse or store any article of food intended for sale; or
(d) knowingly permit any premises, owned or occupied by him, or otherwise under his management or control, to be used as a shop for the sale of any article of food or for the purpose of warehousing or storing any article of food intended for sale; or
(e) have in his possession or control any article of food with a view to the sale thereof or knowing that the same is in- tended for sale,
except with a licence from the Council and in the terms of such licence.
accordance with
(2) It shall be lawful for the Council to prescribe in the case of any such licence any conditions which may to the Council seem desirable.
(3) This by-law shall not apply to the following:-
(a) the sale of food by the keepers of hotels and boarding houses
to guests and visitors;
(b) the sale of green vegetables, fruit, confectionery, bean curd,
congee, soup or other prepared food by licensed hawkers; (c) public sales by licensed auctioneers: provided that in any sale of intoxicating liquor the provisions of the Liquors Ordin- ance 1931 are complied with;
(d) the sale of eggs.
(4) In this by-law 'shop' includes every place where any article is sold ordinarily from time to time.
4. Any breach of these by-laws or of any prescribed condition of a licence shall render the licence subject to immediate cancellation, and in the event of cancellation no fees shall be refunded.
5. All fees shall be paid quarterly in advance, within the first seven days of the quarter, to the Secretary of the Council.
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