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[No. 6-8.7.19.—3.]
A BILL
INTITULED
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An Ordinance for the more effectual protection
of marine stores.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Marine Stores Short title. Protection Ordinance, 1919.
2. In this Ordinance, and in any Regulation made Interpreta- thereunder,
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Dealer in marine stores means any person who keeps a shop for dealing in, buying, or selling marine stores, whether solely or together with other articles.
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Marine stores includes coal, anchors, cables, sails, old junk, old iron, old metal, scrap metal, broken metal or partly manufactured metal goods, or defaced or old metal goods: or any single one of such articles or any marine stores or marine store of any des- cription; but does not include provisions of any kind. "Marine stores [hawker]" means any person who makes use of any wharf or launch or any junk, lighter, cargo-boat, or sampan, or open boat of any description, whether belonging to him or not, in connection with buying any marine stores, either for his own use or bene- fit or for the use or benefit of another person.
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3. No person shall carry on the trade or business of Licence for
marine
a dealer in marine stores, or shall be a marine stores dealing in [hawker], unless he is the holder of a licence for that or [hawking] collecting purpose, and no licence shall be granted to a marine stores. stores [hawker] except through and on the application of a dealer in marine stores who shall give security in such sum as may be fixed by the Governor in Council by Regulation for every marine stores [hawker] to whom licence is granted on his application for the perform- ance and observance by such [hawker] of the conditions of such licence and of the Regulations affecting the same, and of the provisions of this Ordinance.
4. Every such licence shall be granted by and held Conditions at the discretion of the Captain Superintendent of Police, of licence. who shall have power to cancel the same for a breach
of this Ordinance or of any Regulation made thereunder, on such conditions as to fees and subject to such Regula-
tions as may be made by the Governor in Council.
5. Every dealer in marine stores shall keep books Keeping of fairly written, and shall enter therein an account of all books by such marine stores as he may from time to time become dealer. possessed of, stating in respect of every article the time at which and the person from whom he purchased or received the same, adding, in the case of every such last-mentioned person, a description of his business and place of abode.