ORDINANCE No. 9 OF 1858.
Markets.
5. No buildings shall be erected, continued, or maintained, in any market, save only houses with shops, stalls, standings, houses for market porters, and lan or entrepôts; and the Surveyor General is hereby empowered and required to see to the execution of all laws for the time being in force, with respect to buildings, so far as the same are applicable to the buildings enumerated in the salvo lastly hereinbefore contained; and all the said buildings shall be constructed of stone or brick, and such of them as are shops or stalls shall be fitted with stone or wooden dressers or counters, proper for the purposes of trade, and no stall shall cover a larger surface than seven lineal feet.
6. Each house and each stall in every market shall be numbered, and a register of the same by its proper number shall be kept in the office of the Surveyor General, ["Registrar General" as amended by Ordinance No. 5 of 1867] which register shall also contain an entry of the name of the actual lessee or tenant of the same, the premium therefor, the rent thereof, and the term of lease, and such entry shall be prima facie evidence of the facts thereby appearing.
7. Licensed hawkers may lawfully hawk, for sale, any green vegetables, fruit, bean curds, congee, confectionary, and soup; and boatmen may lawfully sell any fresh fish from their boats or vessels to the crews or occupants of other boats or vessels, at a distance from the shore of at least three hundred feet; neither shall this Ordinance extend to prohibit bona fide public sales by licensed auctioneers, or sales (not being sales of raw butcher's meat) in shops or stores not kept by Asiatics, nor the sale of rice, to prevent any person from selling on his own premises any bread, milk, congee, confectionary or soup, or salt fish by hawkers as aforesaid, not being less at any one time than the weight of one picul, nor (if a licensed victualler or keeper of a boarding, eating, or coffee house, or cook shop) from supplying any cooked provisions to a customer.
8. All persons soever within the said district of Victoria or the harbour thereof (except in the cases specified in section 7), are hereby forbidden to sell or expose for sale in any place soever, 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.
9. No sales within any market (except in cases to which section 11 is applicable) shall take place but in a stall or in a shop.
10. No lessee or renter of a stall, or of a shop or house, within any market, shall underlet or assign the same, or any part thereof, without the written licence of the Surveyor General.
11. In such markets as may be by the Governor in Council thereunto specially determined, and which shall be notified as aforesaid, there shall be set apart and numbered by the Surveyor General, ["Registrar General" as amended by Ordinance No. 5 of 1867] lan or entrepôts, for the sale and purchase by wholesale of swine, fish, fowl (whether alive or dead), vegetables, and fruit, whereat dealers having stalls or shops in such market may purchase their supplies of the same articles; and such lan or entrepôts, and the persons frequenting or using the same, shall be regulated and
Buildings in markets.
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[See Ord. No. 5 of 1867 s. 8.]
Numbering houses and stalls, and registering the same.
Certain marketable articles may be sold out of market.
All other sales of marketable articles out of market prohibited.
Sales in markets to take place in stalls or shops.
Underletting forbidden.
Wholesale depôts to be provided in each market.