Penalties.
Hopeal.
G.N. No. A.120 of 1948.
Commençe- MGTH.
Duration
Citation.
Application.
(d) for the manager or person concerned in the mannge- ment of any hotel to refuse to supply to a person being accommo- dated in a hotel any service in respect of which a maximum charge has been fixed or has been directed to be computed under this Ordinance or any regulation made hereunder for any reason other than such reason as a magistrate shall deem sufficient,
(1) Any contravention of any regulation made under this Ordinance shall be punished on summary conviction by imprison→ ment for any farm not exceeding six mouths and by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and save in so far as a lesser penalty is not provided by regulation any such contravention and any offence against this Ordinance or regulation made hereunder shall be so punishable.
(2) Where any person concerned in the management of a hotel is convicted of contravening any regulation made under paragraph (/) of sub-section (1) of section 4, the magistrato may in addition to any punishment which he may lawfully impose order the person who is carrying on the business of auch holel 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.
9. The Price Control (Hotels) (Control of Charges) Regulations, 1948, are beroby repealed and any charges fixed thereunder shall be deemed never to have been applicable.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 the 31st December, 1950: Provided that it shall be lawful for the Legislative Council from time to time by resolution to extend the duration of this Ordinance for such term, not exceeding one yeur at a time, as may be specified in such resolution.
1949.
SCHEDULE
THE HOTELS ORDINANCE, 1949. (Section 4(8))
REGULATIONS.
1. These regulations may be cited as The Hotel Regulations,
2. These regulations shall apply to the hotels listed in Column T of the First Schedule bereto.
3.
In these regulations—
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"the Ordinance" monus 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 Schedulo hereto.
4.
Interpreta. tion,
A declaration that a person is a Hong Kong resident shall Declaration be in the Form I prescribed in the Third Scheduls hereto which of Hong form may be completed in advance of such a person's arrival in Kong
resident. the Colony upon request by his employer or by a person uuthorised to net in such behalf for such employer or by such other person as may be able to produce evidence satisfactory to the Quartering Authority.
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 auch evidence as he shall deem sufficient either that such a person declaration bus resided in Hong Kong for a consecutive period of not less than to be made. six mouths 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 monthe.
8.
NOME.
The manager of any hotel listed in Column T of the First Maximum Schedule and any person concerned in the management of such a capucity of hotel shall not allow any private room to be occupied by mare 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. An additional charge may be made when a child under Additional the age of ten years is so accommodated in a roota alrendy occupied charge for to maximuni capacity by persons over the nga of ten years.
Such children. additional charge sbill 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.
B. (1) The manager of every hotel listed in Column I of the Reservation First Schedulo shall reserve for the use of Hong Kong residents of particular auch 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 ouch Schedule and the manager shall within seven days of the
Hong Kong coming into force of these regulations submit to the Quartering
residents.