THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 5, 1930.
465
No. 552.
By-laws made by the Sanitary Board under section 16 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, Ordinance No. 1 of 1903.
Eating-houses.
1. No building or portion thereof may be used as an eating-house without a licence issued by the Head of the Sanitary Department.
2. Any person desirous of obtaining a licence to use any building or portion thereof as an eating-house, shall make application to the Board by means of a properly filled-in form, for which purpose blank forms can be obtained from the Secretary, at his office.
3. Every eating-house shall be kept at all times in a cleanly condition and free from all noxious matter. The troughs, 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 limewashed, unless such cating-house is exempted therefrom by the Head of the Sanitary Department, and the wood-work thoroughly scrubbed with soap and water during the months of June and December of each year.
4. The whole of the ground floor of the premises is to be covered with a layer of not less than three inches of cement-concrete rendered smooth and laid to the satisfaction of the Board.
5. Except with the special exemption in writing of the Head of the Sanitary Depart- ment, 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 situate, and, except as aforesaid, if any such ceiling, hollow wall or stair- lining shall be found in any such building the Board may by resolution declare the for- feiture of the licence.
6. No person suffering from any infectious or contagious disease shall be allowed in any eating-house.
7. Eating-houses shall be closed between midnight and 6 a.m. and no meals or refreshments shall be supplied during that period to any person not resident therein.
8. No intoxicating liquors shall be sold, served or consumed, or opium smoked at any eating-house.
9. The licensee shall not permit disorderly conduct on his premises, or suffer unlawful games or gaming therein, or permit or suffer any prostitute to frequent such premises or to remain therein.
10. Every licensee shall cause to be legibly painted or fixed, and shall keep so painted or fixed, on his premises, in a conspicuous place, in letters at least four inches long, his name followed by the words Licensed Eating-house", together with the
number of his licence.
11. Every eating-house shall be, during the hours at which the business thereof is carried on, open to inspection by any member of the Board or officer of the Department.
12. The following fees are hereby prescribed, and shall be paid to the Head of the Sanitary Department, in advance, viz. :-
For an eating-house licence in Victoria.
For an eating-house licence elsewhere...
$20. $ 5.
13. All licences granted before the 30th day of June, 1931, shall expire on that day, all other licences shall expire on the 30th day of June next after the day of the date thereof.