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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD JULY, 1887.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.No. 304.
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His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of the Queen, to the following Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council:---
Ordinance No. 21 of 1887.-An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to consolidate the law relating to various Licences.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd July, 1887.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
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LS W. G. CAMERON.
No. 21 of 1887.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to consolidate the law relating to various Licences.
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[16th July, 1887.]
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:— 1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Licensing Consolidation Ordinance 1887.
2. In the construction of this: Ordinance the term Public Vehicle shall mean any chair, carriage, jinricksha, or other vehicle of any kind which plies for hire in the streets for the carriage of passengers, and the word Licence shall mean a licence required by this Ordinance.
3. The Governor in Council may from time to time make, and when made may alter, add to, or repeal Regula- tions under this Ordinance ;*
(1.) For the issue of licences, the forms thereof, the fees to be paid on such licences, their periods, conditions, and the officers who are to issue them
(2.) For the regulation of public vehicles and of traffic
carried on by means of such vehicles.
4. All Regulations published under any Ordinance re- pealed by this Ordinance are hereby continued in force until they shall be replaced by new Regulations made under this Ordinance.
5. All licences issued under any Ordinance repealed by this Ordinance shall continue in force till they shall expire; or be forfeited or revoked.
6. A licence shall be required for every
(1.) Auctioneer.
(2.) Billiard table, skittle-ground, nine-pin or bow-
ling-alley open to the public.
(3.) Hawker.
(4.) Money changer.
(5.) Public vehicle, and also for every bearer, drawer
or driver of a public vehicle.
(6.) Undertaker of Chinese funerals.
7. Until further order shall be made by the Governor in Council under Section 3, all licences shall be issued by the officers named in the Schedule hereto, on payment of the fees, and for the periods set forth therein. The granting of all such licences shall be in the discretion of the Officers respectively named in the said Schedule or in any Order in Council by which such Schedule may hereafter be varied. Any person aggrieved by the refusal of a licence may appeal to the Governor who may direct the proper Officer to issue such licence.
8. Every person who shall act as an auctioneer or shall keep a public billiard table, skittle-ground, nine-pin or bowling alley without a licence shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars; and every person who shall neglect to take out any other licence shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars,
Title.
Short Title.
Definition.
Governor in Council may
make Regulations.
Existing Regulations continued.
Existing licences continued.
Licences.
(5 of 45. 7.)
(5 of 45. 7.)
(8 of 58. 11.)
(9 of 67. 7.)
(5 of 83.3.)
(8 of 58, 13.)
Issue ef Licences.
Penalties. (5 of 45. 8.)