982 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH NOVEMBER, 1885.
Period of Licence.
Recorda.
Transfer of Licences.
(11 of 14. 9)
Wholesale and retail sale.
(Sce 11 of 44. 21)
Temporary Licences.
Application for Licence
(11 of 44. 3.)
Веволв
(11 of 44. 4.)
Disagreement
of Justices.
(1 of 44. 4.)
Applicants' recognisances.
(1 of 44, 5)
Fee. Licence.
(1 of 44. 7.)
31. The Colonial Secretary may issue licences to distil in the form of Schedule A, on each of which licences an annual licence fee of One hundred and twenty dollars shall be payable in advance. Such conditions as the Governor in Commeil naay from time to time determine may be added to such licences,
32. No licensed distiller shall sell to any person or send out or deliver any spirits, except for export, until the duty on such spirits has been paid. The provisions of Sections 17 to 26 of this Ordinance shall apply to all sales, deliveries, and exports from distilleries, and to all spirits in stock in distilleries on the coming into force of this Ordinance. Any Excise Officer appointed by the Governor under this Ordinance may, at any hour of the night or day, enter and inspect any licensed distellery, and may examiuc and have access to all spirits, stills, apparatus, vessels, or books or accounts relating thereto which may be therein.
Sale of Intoxicating Liquors.
33. 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.
34. The holder of a licence to sell by retail 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.
35. 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 fce in each case as to the Governor shall seem fit.
Public House, and Adjunct Licences.
36. 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 L or M according to the nature of the licence required.
37. 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 Guzette and a public newspaper at least one month 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.
38. 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 froin him may enter a statement of their opinions on the proceedings of the Court, and the Police Magistrates shall submit them to the Governor, whose de-
cision shall be final.
39. 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 N or O according to the nature of the licence he requires, whereupon the Police Magistrate shall deliver to him a certificate in the form of Schedule Por Q according to the nature of his application; and the Police Magistrate shall, within ten days, transmit to the Treasurer a schedule of all such certificates as may have been granted.
40. The applicant may, within fourteen days from the date of such certificate, lodge it in the Treasury together with the fee provided by Schedule IV to this Ordinance, whereupon the Treasurer shall issue to him a licence in the form of Schedule R or S according to the nature of the licence for which the certificate is granted, such licence to be called a public house liçence in the one 'case, or an adjunct liecucc in the other.
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