964 [ 21 or 1887. ] LICENSING CONSOLIDATION ,
Regulations made by the Gorernor in Council on the 19th November,
and gazetted 21st November, 1891.
1. The rules and conditions made by the Governor in Council on the 30th
day of November, 1887 , the 4th day of June, 1888, the 12th day of
January, 1888, and on the 3rd day of January, 1891 , under the provisions of
The Licensing Consolidation Ordinance, 1887, are hereby repealed.
2. Licences for public vehicles and licences for drivers, drawers or bearers
of such vehicles shall be issued by the Captain Superintendent of Police, who
may, in his discretion , refuse to issue any licence. No licences shall be issued
for more than 500 jinricksbas, within the island of Hongkong. Subject to
the next rule all licences for public vehicles shall be taken out half-yearly or
for the residue of the current half-year, and shall expire on the 31st day of
May or on the 30th day of November, all licences for drivers, drawers or
bearers of public vehicles shall be taken out at such times and for such periods
not exceeding 1 year as the Superintendent of Police may consider necessary.
3. Licences for jinrickshas within the island of Hongkong shall be issued
annually and shall be chargeable with a fee of $ 72 per licence. Such fee
shall be payable in advance by four equal instalments of $ 18 each per quarter,
and in default of any such payment the licence shall be forfeited .
4. The fees för half-yearly licences for other public vehicles shall be as
follows :
(a.) For every wheeled vehicle other than a jinricksha in
the island of Hongkong, $ 18.00
(6.) For every wheeled vehicle in British Kowloon , ...... . $ 12.00
(c.) For every chair,...... 1.00
The fee for a licence for a driver, drawer or bearer of a public vehicle shall
be thirty cents .
5. No licence shall be transferable, except upon such special grounds as
may be approved by the Captain Superintendent of Police and sanctioned by
the Governor.
6. No holder of a licence for a vehicle shall let out his vehicle to any
driver, drawer or bearer not being the holder of a lawful licence as driver,
drawer or bearer.
7. Every licensed vehicle shall have thereto affixed , or painted thereon in
such conspicuous places as the Captain Superintendent of Police directs, the
number of its licence in figures not less than two inches in length .
8. No jinricksha licensed under these rules shall exceed 36 inches in
breadth between the wheels, or shall have tires to such wheels of less breadth
than 14 inch . Such tires must be flat , pot bevelled, and the hood of such
jinricksha must afford a clear height from the upper side of the cushion of
41 inches,
9. The driver, drawer or bearer of every licensed vehicle shall wear con
spicuously a distinguishing badge bearing the number of his own licence .
Should such badge be made of leather or metal, or of both and be issued by
the Captain Superintendent of Police he may demand a deposit of twenty -five
cents for each badge, such deposit to be returned on the expiry of the licence
and the return of the badge.
10. For each jinricksha there shall be two licensed drawers, who need not,
however, both be in charge of the vebicle at the same time.