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DIÇAS,
Regulation of hawking by means of moblie shops and cabisena.
Annual liceners.
(other than food specified in paragraph (a) and food in the course of preparation) for the purpose of rendering it fit for human con sumption:
"pitch" means an area of ground allotted by the Director to a hawker
for the purpose of carrying on his trade thereon;
"wall stall" means a stall, from which goods are sold, that is erected og or against any external part of a structure and faces onto a street, lane, alley or footpath.
4. (1) Save as provided in paragraph (2) of this regulation and in paragraph (7) of regulation 7, no person shall bawk in the New Territories except under and in accordance with a licence granted by the Director under these regulations.
(2) The Director may, from time to time, set aside, for such period as he specifies, any place or area as a place in which any person may hawk notwithstanding that a licence had not been granted to him under these regulations, and paragraph (1) shall not apply to a person who hawks in any place or area so set aside during the period for which it is set aside.
$. The Director may, by notification published in the Gapens, prescribe any place or acca, other than a hawker bazaar, within which no bawker may hawk unless his licence is endorsed by the Director with permission to hawk therein.
6.
(1) (4) The Director may, with the concurrence of the Com- missioner of Police, prescribe areas in which hawking by means of mobile shops and mobile canteens may be carried on. (b) A notice of any area so prescribed shall be published in the
Gazette.
(2) Any area so prescribed shall be delineated on a map, which shall be signed by the Director.
(3) Save within an area prescribed under paragraph (1), no person shall hawk by means of a mobile shop or mobile canteen.
7. (1) Subject to paragraph (5) and, in the case of an application for a licence to hawk by means of a mobile shop for the sale of food or a mobile canteen, to regulation 9, the Director may, on payment of the fee prescribed in respect thereof in the third column of the Table this regulation, grant to any person a licence of any of the classes of licence specified in the first column of that Table.
Class of
(A)
TABLE
Description.
cooked food stall (full meals) licence
Fee.
175.
cooked food stall (light meals) Ucence
knownovel
125.
(U)
fixed pitch lictoce
40.
pedlar hawker licence
10.
fixed pitch newspaper licence
20.
(vi)
newspaper pedlar licence
5.
(90)
ice cream and frozen poufections licence boot-black licence
75.
(x)
wall stall licence ...............................1609010114000000
5.
10.
per foot of the overall length of the stall meas- ured between per- pendiculars from The ground to the extremities of the stall, or $30. whichever
is the greater.
(x)
mobile shop (for sale of articles other than food)
licence
200,
(xi)
mabile shop (for sale of food) licence
250.
*Laddi)
mobile canteen licence
3.50.
(2) Every annual licence of class (1). (U), (iii), (v), (viii) or (ix), if issued
(a) at the District Office for the District of Tai Po, shall expire on
the 31st day of March in each year:
(6) at the District Office for the District of Yuen Long, shall expire
on the 30th day of June in each year:
(c) at the District Office for the District of Tsuen Wan, shall expire
on the 30th day of September in each year; and
(d) at the District Office for the District of Sai Kung or at the District Office for the Islands District, shall expire on the 31st day of December in each year:
Provided that where any hawker transfers his place of business from one of the aforesaid Districts to another such District, the licence may be transferred in the discretion of the Director to such other District and upon the expiration of such licence it may be renewed upon pay- ment of a fee calculated at the rate of one twelfth per month of the appropriate annual fee for such period as will bring the annual renewal date of such licence into conformity with the appropriate annual renewal date for licences issued at the District Office for the District to which much licence was transferred.