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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 26, 1940.

SHORT TITLE.

Supplementary Schedule,-could.

AMENDMENT OR REPEAL,

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113. The Liquors Ordinance, 1931. (No. 36 of 1931), -contd.

(c) give such directions in writing in pre- scribed matters as he may deem necessary to licensees for the protection of the revenue;

(d) revoke the licence or permit on proof to his satisfaction of an offence against this Ordinance, whether any person has been convicted of such offence or not.

8. Any person requiring a licence or permit or Applications

the renewal or any extension, transfer or

for licences and permits. amendment of a licence or permit shall make application either personally or in writing to the officer authorized to grant the same, as he may direct, and in the form, if any, prescribed, and shall furnish such information and evidence relating to the application as may be prescribed by regulations or as the Superintendent may require.

9. Every requisition for a permit and a copy of Register of every permit issued shall be entered in a requisitions book or books in the office of the officer and permits. authorized to issue the permit, and the absence of a requisition or copy therefrom shall be prima facie evidence that a permit has not been applied for or, as the case may be, that a permit has not issued.

licensee.

10. If the holder of a licence for any preinises Deputy for

in which dutiable goods may be stored or absent manufactured leaves this Colony for more than forty-eight hours at a time, or is by reason of any disability incapable of acting, he, or in the case of disability his legal representative, shall appoint a responsible person, approved by the Superintendent, to act on his behalf during his absence or disability and shall lodge with the Super- intendent a notice of such appointment indorsed or countersigned by the person appointed; and during the absence or dis- ability of the licensee the person appointed shall, without prejudice to the responsibility of the licensee, have the same duties and liabilities as the licensee under this Ordinance.

11-(1) The Superintendent may appoint such Revenue

revenue officers for the purposes of this officers. Ordinance as he thinks fit, inay assign them their duties, may regulate the manner in which they are to perform their duties and may remove such revenue officers.

(2) The Superintendent shall have power to impose a fine not exceeding ten dollars on any revenue officer whom he finds to have neglected or absented himself from his duty or to have committed any breach of discipline: such fine shall be deducted from the officer's pay and shall be in addition to any other punishruent to which he may be liable.

(3) Every revenue officer shall be pro- vided by the Superintendent with a suitable badge of office.