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2. Any person desirous of obtaining such a licence shall make application to the Council by means of a properly filled-in form, for which purpose blank forms can be obtained from the Secretary thereof at his office. Every such person shall also lodge a plan of the premises, if so required.
3. All such licences shall expire on the 30th day of June next after the day of the date thereof.
4. The following fees are hereby prescribed and shall be paid to the Secretary in advance-
For a restaurant or eating-house licence in
the City of Victoria, or in the districts of Causeway Bay, Whitfield, Quarry Bay, Sai Wan Ho and Shaukiwan, or in Kowloon and New Kowloon For a restaurant or eating-house licence
elsewhere
$20.00
$ 5.00
Provided that in respect of any such licence issued after the 1st day of January half only of the above fees shall be charged and paid.
5. Every such licence shall be conditional on compliance with these by-laws so far as they are applicable to the licence in question. Breach of any relevant by-law shall render the licence liable to can- cellation by the Council.
6. Every licensee of an eating-house shall cause to be legibly painted or fixed, and shall keep so painted or fixed, on his premises, in a conspicuous place, in English letters and in Chinese characters at least four inches long, his name followed by the words 'Licensed Eating-house', together with the number of his licence.
7.-(1) The whole of the ground floor of the premises of every licensed eating-house shall be covered with a layer of not less than three inches of cement-concrete rendered smooth and laid to the satisfaction of the Council,
(2) Those parts of the premises in which cooking, preparation or storage of food is carried out shall have walls imperviously surfaced to a minimum height of eight feet.
8. Except with the special exemption in writing of the Council no ceiling (not being the underside of a floor), hollow wall or stairlining shall remain or be fixed in any building in which or in part or parts of which the premises of the licensee are situated, and, except as aforesaid, if any such ceiling, hollow wall or stair-lining shall be found in any such building the Council may order the forfeiture of the licence.
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9.--(1) No living room, sleeping place, partitions, cubicles or mezzanine floors shall be allowed on any premises licensed as eating-house except with the permission of the Council and as shown on the plan of the premises.
(2) Where such permission has been given no part of a floor to which the licence relates is to be used for sleeping purposes unless it has been partitioned off from the remainder of the floor to the satisfaction of the Council; and no part of the trade shall be carried on and no storage of food or utensils shall be permitted in the part so partitioned off for sleeping purposes.
10. Every restaurant and eating-house shall be provided with a suitable urinal of a type prescribed by the Council, and every restaurant shall be provided also with a decent and suitable privy. Every such urinal and privy shall be kept in a state of good repair and cleanliness.
11. Every eating-house and restaurant shall be kept at all times The troughs, in a cleanly condition and free from all noxious matter. tables and utensils in use shall be thoroughly cleansed and the floors properly swept at least once in every twenty-four hours. The whole of the interior walls and ceilings of the rooms shall be properly lime- washed unless such eating-house or restaurant is exempted therefrom by the Council, and the woodwork thoroughly scrubbed with soap and water during the months of June and December of each year unless similarly exempted.
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