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Repeal. G.N. No. A.190 of 1948.
Commence- ment.
Duration.
the person who is carrying on the business of such hotel to pay a sum equivalent to the value of any charge in excess of the maximum or permitted charge to the person upon whom such excess charge was imposed.
(Hotels) (Control of Charges) 9. The Price Control Regulations, 1948, are hereby repealed and any charges fixed thereunder shall be deemed never to have been applicable.
10. This Ordinance shall come into force on such day as the Governor shall notify by proclamation in the Gazette.
11. This Ordinance shall continue in force until and including Provided that it shall be lawful for the 31st December, 1950: the Legislative Council from time to time by resolution to extend the duration of this Ordinance for such term, not exceeding one year at a time, as may be specified in such resolution.
Citation.
1.
1949.
Application.
SCHEDULE
THE HOTELS ORDINANCE, 1949.
(Section 4(3))
REGULATIONS.
These regulations may be cited as The Hotel Regulations,
2. These regulations shall apply to the hotels listed in Column I of the First Schedule hereto.
Interpreta- tion.
3.
Declaration of Hong Kong resident.
In these regulations-
"the Ordinance" means The Hotels Ordinance, 1949; "Hong Kong resident" means a person who has been declared in writing under the hand of the Quartering Authority to be a person who is in his opinion a resident of the Colony of Hong Kong;
"maximum capacity" means in respect of any room in a hotel the maximum number of persons over the age of ten years who may be accommodated in the respective type of room mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto.
4. A declaration that a person is a Hong Kong resident shall be in the Form I prescribed in the Third Schedule hereto which form may be completed in advance of such a person's arrival in the Colony upon request by his employer or by a person authorised
to act in such behalf for such employer or by such other person
as may be able to produce evidence satisfactory to the Quartering Authority.
declaration
5. The Quartering Authority shall not make a declaration Evidence that a person is a Hong Kong resident unless he is satisfied by to enable such evidence as he shall deem sufficient either that such a person to be made. has resided in Hong Kong for a consecutive period of not less than six months preceding the making of any such declaration or that the period if any during which he has resided in Hong Kong preceding the making of such declaration will together with the period for which he intends to stay in Hong Kong aggregate to not less than six months.
rooms.
6. The manager of any hotel listed in Column I of the First Maximum Schedule and any person concerned in the management of such a capacity of hotel shall not allow any private room to be occupied by more private than its maximum capacity: Provided that a child under the age of ten years may be accommodated over and above such maximum capacity at the request of the parent or guardian of such child.
7.
Such children.
An additional charge may be made when a child under Additional the age of ten years is so accommodated in a room already occupied charge for to maximum capacity by persons over the age of ten years. additional charge shall not exceed half the rate paid by one person over the age of ten years in such a room: Provided that where neither bed or bedding is supplied by the hotel there shall be no additional charge for the accommodation in this manner of a child under the age of three years.
8, (1) The manager of every hotel listed in Column I of the Reservation First Schedule shall reserve for the use of Hong Kong residents of particular such portion of its total accommodation other than its public rooms accommo- as is in the case of each such hotel mentioned in Column II of dation for such Schedule and the manager shall within seven days of the residents.
Hong Kong coming into force of these regulations submit to the Quartering Authority a statement in Form 2 in the Third Schedule hereto. Such rooms shall not be used for the accommodation of guests other than Hong Kong residents without the consent of the Quartering Authority.
(2) If after the receipt of any such statement the Quarter- ing Authority is of the opinion that the allocation made by the manager in such statement as aforesaid is defective in that it does not comply with the requirements of this regulation or that the allocation made by the manager in such statement is in his opinion unsuitable the Quartering Authority may serve by post a notice on the manager informing him of such opinion and calling upon him to amend the allocation made by the statement in manner indicated by such notice. If the manager fails within seven days after the receipt of such notice to agree to such amendment or to reply to such notice the Quartering Authority shall apply the procedure prescribed in the Fourth Schedule hereto.
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