1987 Ed.]

Hawker (Urban Council) By-laws

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(e) have affixed to it one of the photographs which accompanied the application;

(f) state that the licence is issued subject to the condition that the licensee complies with these by-laws.

(3) Without limiting paragraph (2), the Council may in any such licence--

(a) impose on the licensee conditions relating to the sale of the commodity, or, as the case may be, the provision of the service, which he is permitted to hawk;

(b) prescribe the hours during which the licensee may hawk;

(c) specify the areas in which the licensee may hawk;

(d) specify such other particulars as the Council considers necessary.

10. In every case where an application for a temporary licence is granted, the Council shall issue to the applicant in such form as it thinks fit a temporary licence which permits the licensee to hawk for such period (not exceeding 1 month) and for such purpose as the Council specifies in the licence, subject to any conditions that the Council thinks fit to specify in the licence.

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Temporary licences.

11. (1) Where a licensee leaves or intends to leave Hong Kong, or is incapacitated by illness, for a period of more than 8 days, he may, with the prior permission in writing of the Council and on the payment of the prescribed fee, appoint any person eligible to hold a hawker licence to be his deputy during the absence or incapacity.

(2) Where permission is given under paragraph (1), the Council shall issue to the deputy a permit in such form and containing such particulars as it thinks fit and all the provisions of these by-laws, so far as they are applicable and with any necessary modifications, shall apply to the permit as if it were a licence.

(3) The Council shall not, except in such special circumstances as it thinks fit, grant any permission under paragraph (1) for any period exceeding 6 months.

(4) Whenever a deputy acts for a licensee under this by-law, the duties imposed on a licensee under these by-laws shall be complied with by the deputy; and the deputy shall be liable to prosecution for contravention of these by-laws as if he were a licensee.

12. (1) A licensee who holds a fixed-pitch hawker licence may employ such number of assistants as he thinks necessary for the purpose of enabling him to carry on his business, but no such assistant shall engage in hawking during the absence (other than absence for reasonable cause) of the licensee from his pitch.

Schedule, Part I.

Assistants.

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