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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25т¤ JUNE, 1887.
19. No lessee of any market building shall sublet or assign the same or any part thereof without the written permission of the Registrar General, nor shall transfer his lease to any other person. Nevertheless the business of any lessee may be carried on, in case of his death or absence, by his executors, administrators, or agents until the expiration of his lease.
20. No alteration in or addition to any market building shall be made or commenced by any lessee thereof without the sanction of the Surveyor General in writing.
21. Whenever the lessee of any market building shall fail to comply with any condition of his holding or grant as to the execution of any repairs to such market building, or other works in connection with the same, the Surveyor General may summon such lessee before a Police Magis- trate, who may summarily order him to execute such repairs or other works within a reasonable time to be specified in such order. Any failure to carry out the terms of such order shall be deemed an offence against this Ordinance.
22. Except as by this Ordinance provided, no person shall within the City or Harbour of Victoria or in such villages as shall be named in any Bye-law to be made for the purpose by the Governor in Council 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; always provided that the Governor in Council may from time to time grant licences for the sale of articles of food for man elsewhere than in a public market, to such persons, for such considerations, and for such periods as he shall think fit.
23. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be so construed as to forbid any of the following sales of food :-
(1.) Of rice, bread, milk, salt-fish, or confectionery. (2.) Of green vegetables, fruit, bean-curd, congee, soup, or other prepared food by licensed haw-
kers.
(3.) Of fish, by licensed boatmen at a distance of at
least one hundred yards from shore.
(4.) Of cooked provisions to customers by any licensed victualler or keeper of a boarding house or refreshment room.
(5.) Of any food commonly sold by chandlers and purveyors not being raw butchers' meat.
(6.) Public sales by licensed Auctioneers.
24. No person shall keep, sell, expose for sale or bring into the Colony or into any market, any food for man or beast which is in an unwholesome condition or unfit for
use.
25. Except as provided by this Ordinance, no person shall demand or receive any money or other valuable con- sideration as a fee, fine, toll, rent or otherwise for access or admission to, or for selling, or buying in any market.
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26. The Captain Superintendent of Police, the Registrar General, the Surveyor General and their respective Officers as well as Members and Officers of the Sanitary Board shall have at all times free access to every part of every market building.
27. The Governor in Council may from time to time make and when made revoke, add to, or alter bye-laws for regulating the markets of the colony.
PART IV.
Miscellaneous.
28. All Orders in Council and bye-laws made under this Ordinance shall be published in the Government Gazette in English and Chinese. Every Order in Council shall take effect from the date specified in such order. All bye-laws when published shall be construed as parts of this Ordinance and such bye-laws shall be binding not only upon all licensees under this Ordinance but also upon all persons employed by or dealing with them. The bye- laws set forth in the Schedules hereto annexed shall be the bye-laws made under this Ordinance until the same shall be altered or repealed by the Governor in Council.
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Sub-letting prohibited.
Alterations to buildings.
Repairs to buildings by Lessee.
Sales outside markets prohibited.
Exceptions to the prohibi- tion of sales outside
markets.
Unwholesome food.
Unauthorised fees or charges prohibited.
Markets open
to inspection.
Power to make Byu- laws.
Promulgation
of orders and
bye-laws,
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