Citation and
COMMENCE- ment.
Application.
¡G.N.A. 77/58).
Interpreta-
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PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE, 1964.
(No. 30 of 1960).
HAWKER By-Laws, 1960.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 83 of the Publi: Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, the Urban Council ba made the following by-laws-
1. These by-laws may be cited as the Hawker By-laws. 1960, and shall come into operation on the day appointed for the commercnen of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960.
2. (1) These by-laws shall apply to the urban areas only, (2) These by-laws shall not apply to any hawker who is- (a) carrying on business as a car cleaner and who is licensed | by the Commissioner of Police under the provisions di regulation 16 of the Road Traffic (Parking and Waiting Regulations, 1958; or
(b) hawking-
(i) on enclosed land held on lease or permit from the Crown:
(i) on the Public Square, Yau Ma Tei; or
(iii) on the Chinese Recreation Ground, Hong Kong.
3. In these by-laws, save where the context otherwise requires- “annual licence" means a licence granted under the provisions
paragraph (1) of by-law 7;
"deputy" means any person appointed by a hawker under the provisione of by-law 15 to deputize for him, and the word "hawker" includes any such person;
"bawker bazaar" means an area of ground demarcated by the Council
and allocated by it for the use of hawkers;
"open food" means-
(a) uncooked perishable food; and
(b) food which is not contained in a container of such materials and so closed, as to exclude all risk of contamination. but does not include raw vegetables and uncut fruit or any food which has to be subjected to a process of milling, refining cooking (other than food specified in paragraph (a) and food in the course of preparation) for the purpose of rendering it fit for human consumption;
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"pitch" means an area of ground allotted by the Council to a hawker
for the purpose of carrying on his trade thereon;
"wall stall" means a stall, from which goods are sold, which is erected on or against any external part of any structure and which faces onto a street. lane, alley or footpath.
licence.
4. Save as provided in paragraph (6) of by-law 7, no person. No hawking other than a person who is bawking animals and birds only, shall hawk without in the urban areas except under and in accordance with a licence granted by the Council,
5. The Council may, by notification published in the Gazette, Restriction prescribe any place or area, other than a hawker bazaar, within which of hawking
in special no hawker may hawk unless his licence is endorsed by the Council areas. with permission to bawk therein.
6.
(1) (a) The Council may, with the concurrence of the Com- Regulation of missioner of Police, prescribe areas in which hawking by hawking by means of mobile shops and mobile canteens may be curried on. mobile shops (b) A notice of any such area so prescribed shall be published
in the Gazette.
means of
And canteens.
(2) Any area so prescribed shall be delineated on a map which shall be signed by, and kept at the offices of, the Secretary of the Council.
(3) Save within an arca prescribed under the provisions of para- graph (1), no person shall hawk by means of a mobile shop or mobile
canteen.
7. (1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (4) and, in the case Annual of an application for a licence to hawk by means of a mobile shop for licences. the sale of food or a mobile canteen, to the provisions of by-law 9, the Council may, on payment of the fee prescribed in respect thereof in the third column of Table 1, grant to any person a licence of any of the classea of licence specified in the first coluran of that Table.
Class of Jicence.
TABLE I
Description
cooked food stall (full meals) licence
Fee.
250
cooked food stall (light meals) licence
J50
PURKKUJORDANA
(it)
general purpose stall licence
175
(v)
fixed pitch licence
100
们
pedlar hawker licence
20
(vi)
fixed pitch newspaper pedlar licence
23