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Provision
for tempor. ary permit during
illness etc.
of licensee.
Substitution
for Ordinance
No. 36 of 1931, s. 18.
Transfer
of licence.
Second Schedule.
Substitution
for Ordin-
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Temporary permits.
17A. (1) The Secretary to the Board may in his discre- tion issue a special and temporary permit, in respect of any premises for which a publican's licence, restaurant adjunct licence or hotel keeper's adjunct licence has been granted, authorising the person named in such permit to have the management and control of the licensed premises during the illness or temporary absence from the Colony of the licensee : Provided that no such permit shall be granted for a period longer than three months.
(2) The fee for every such permit shall be ten dollars payable in advance.
(3) During the period for which any such permit is issued the person to whom it is issued shall be deemed to be a licensed person for the purposes of this Ordinance.
7. Section 18 of the Liquors Ordinance, 1931, is repealed and the following section substituted therefor :—
18. (1) The Board may, in their discretion and subject to the payment of the fee specified in the Second Schedule, on good cause shewn direct the transfer, in respect of the same premises, of any publican's or adjunct licence to some other person, such person making a like application as if applying for a new licence on his own behalf. A note of any such transfer shall be endorsed by the Treasurer upon the licence.
(2) The Board may, in their discretion and on its being proved to their satisfaction that the holder of any publican's or adjunct licence has committed a breach of any term or con- dition of his licence, and whether such holder has been con- victed of such breach or not, direct the cancellation of such licence.
(3) An applicant for a transfer under sub-section (1) and a licensee whose licence is directed to be cancelled under sub-section (2) or, in either case, twenty householders resid- ing within a radius of a quarter of a mile from the licensed premises concerned shall be entitled to appeal to the Governor in Council in respect of any decision of the Board under this section.
8. Paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) of Section 22 of the ance No. 36 Liquors Ordinance, 1931, is repealed and the following
paragraph is substituted :---
of 1931.
s. 22 (1) (a).
Amendment
(a) No liquor shall be sold or drunk on any licensed premises except between such hours as may be prescribed by the conditions of the licence.
9. Section 61 of the Liquors Ordinance, 1931, is amended of Ordinance by the insertion of the words "Save as provided by section 4"
No. 36 of
1931, s. 61
at the beginning thereof.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 14th day of March, 1935.
R A. C. NORTH,
Deputy Clerk of Councils.