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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECIMBER 18, 1931.
Saving as to sale of liquor by licensed auctioneer.
Governor in
Council may alter licence fees.
Second Schedule.
Sale of liquor by licensed auctioneers.,
35. Nothing in this Ordinance shall render it illegal for an auctioneer, holding an auctioneer's licence, to sell intoxicating liquor by auction, without any cence, upon his own premises for a principal hold- ing an appropriate liquor licence, or upon premises in respect of which his principal holds an appropriate licence authorising such principal to sell such intoxicating liquor, or in cases where such liquor is the property of the Imperial or Colonial Government, or forms part of the estate of a bankrupt or deceased person, or is sold by order of court, or where, in any particular case, on application made, the Colénial Secretary grants permission for such sale by auction, whether upon licensed premises or elsewhere.
Alteration of licence fees.
36. The Governor in Council may alter any of the fces prescribed under this Ordinance in respect of all or any of the licences therein mentioned, and may at any time substitute in whole or in part a schedule of fees for that contained in the Second Schedule.
Governor in Council may create new forms of licence.
Provision
for transfer of duties.
Special forms of licence.
37. In addition to the forms of licences authorised by this Ordinance and notwithstanding anything herein contained, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council at any time to grant any similar licences in such form and subject to such terms and condi- tions in all respects as he may determine, and subject to the payment of such fees as may be prescribed in such licences.
Power to transfer duties.
38. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council
by notification to appoint such officer as he may think fit to exercise all or any of the duties in con- nexion with the issue of licences which are under this Ordinance vested in the Superintendent, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or other officer of the Govern. ment.
Duties.
PART II.
DUTIES.
39.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Legislative Council by resolution to assess the duties to be paid upon intoxicating liquors or spirituous liquors imported into, distilled, made or prepared in the Colony.
(2) The duty upon such liquors imported shall be payable-
(a) if such liquors are not forthwith in accord- ance with the provisions of this Ordinance removed into a general bonded warehouse or into another ship--
before the removal of them from the ship in which they are imported;
(b) if such liquors are forthwith removed into
a general bonded warehouse—
before the removal of them from such general bonded warehouse, unless such re- moval is for export or into another general bonded warehouse,