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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD APRIL, 1886.
Unifeansed distilling prohibited. (8 of 44, and $ of 69,)
Licences to distil.
(3 of 69.)
Unlicensed sale prohibit
(11 of 44. 1.)
Wholesale and retail sale. (See 11 of 44, 24.)
Temporary Licences.
Application for Licence.
(11 of 14. 8.)
Sessions.
(11 of 44. 4.)
Disagreement of Justices.
(11 of 44. 4.)
Applicants' recognisances. (11 of 44, 5.)
(2.) Sells liquor in any premises bona fide occupied as a Club, to members of such Club and their guests. (3.) Being a licensed Auctioneer sells by Auction in unopened bottles or casks liquor which is bonâ fide part of any estate or property which, in the ordinary course of business, and not merely to dispose of such liquor, he may be authorised to sell.
Distilleries.
4. No person shall make, distil, or rectify any spirits, or shall knowingly keep or have in his possession any still or other utensil, or apparatus for distilling or making or rectifying spirits, without a licence under this Ordinance: All persons holding licences under Ordinance 3 of 1869 may have their licences renewed under this Ordinance from time to time upon such considerations and condi- tions and for such periods as to the Governor in Council may seem fit.
5. The Colonial Secretary may issue licences to distil in the form of Schedule A, on each of which licences an annual fee of One hundred and twenty dollars shall be payable in advance. Such conditions as the Governor in Council may from time to time determine may be added to such licences.
Sale of Intoxicating Liquors.
6. No person shall sell or dispose of, or advertise or expose for sale any intoxicating liquor either by wholesale or retail within the Colony, or shall permit or suffer any such intoxicating liquor to be sold or disposed of or adver- tised or exposed for sale in his house or other place within the Colony without a licence under this Ordinance.
7. The holder of 'a retail or Grocer's licence may also sell intoxicating liquors wholesale, but no person shall sell intoxicating liquors by retail without a licence to that effect, and this Section shall apply to all retail sales of liquor to any person on pretence that he is a customer for other goods, as well as to all sales of quantities exceeding two gallons with an understanding that part is to be returned, and generally, to any act whatever which, under whatsoever pretence, constitutes a retail sale of intoxicating liquor. 8. The Colonial Secretary may at any time issue tem- porary licences for the sale of liquors at any public enter- tainment or on any public occasion on payment of such fee in each case as to the Governor shall seem fit.
Public House, and Adjunct Licences.
9. Every person desirous of obtaining a publican's or adjunct licence shall give ten days' notice to the Magis- trates of Police in the form of Schedule B or C according to the nature of the licence required.
10. The Magistrates of Police, or either of them, may from time to time appoint a day for the granting or trans- ferring of licences, which shall be advertised in the Govern- ment Gazette and a public newspaper at least one week' previously, and the said Magistrates, or either of them, with the assistance of such other Justices of the Peace as may attend on the said day, shall take into consideration all applications which may have been made for licences for the sale of liquors within the Colony, and the presiding Magis- trate may adjourn the consideration of all or any of such applications to any other lawful day.
11. In case of disagreement between the Justices concerning the granting or withholding of any licence, the power of granting or withholding the same shall be vested for the time being in the presiding Magistrate, and all Justices dissenting from him may enter a statement of their opinions on the proceedings of the Court, and the Presiding Magistrate shall submit them to the Governor, whose de- cision shall be final.
12. Every applicant for a licence, who may be approved by the Justices assembled as above, shall enter into a recognisance in the form of Schedule D or E according to the nature of the licence he requires, whereupon the Police Magistrate shall deliver to him a certificate in the form of Schedule For G according to the nature of his application; and the Police Magistrate shall, within ten days, transmit to the Treasurer a return of all such certificates as may have been granted in the form of Schedule H to this Ordinance.