No sleeping
in hawker
stall.
Removal of
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27. No person shall sleep in a hawker stall.
28. Whenever any scavenging or street cleaning is in progress, a equipment to hawker shall, if so requested by a health officer or health inspector of
facilitate scavcoging.
Wholesome
water to be wed at cooked food stalls.
Intoxicating liquor not allowed at
bawker
stall
Hawker
bazaars.
Offences and penalties.
any officer of the Urban Services Department holding the post of overserr or above, remove his stall, wares and all equipment and paraphernalia whatsoever until the scavenging or street cleaning is completed.
29. Only wholesome water shall be used, or allowed to be used, by a hawker at a cooked food stall, and all such water shall be obtained--
(a) from Government water mains; or
(b) from a source, other than such mains, that has been approved
in writing by the Director.
30. No person shall, at any hawker stall, sell, have in his possession, or consume, any intoxicating liquor whatsoever.
31. (1) Where the Director bas established a hawker bazaar, he may in such manner as he thinks fit-
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(a) allocate a pitch in the bazaar to any licensed hawker; and (b) prescribe the commodities that may be sold from any pitch. (2) No person to whom a pitch has been allocated in a hawker bazaar shall hawk in any pitch other than that allocated to him, and no person shall hawk in a hawker bazaar in any pitch that has been allocated to any other person.
(3) Where the commodities that may be sold from a pitch in a hawker bazaar have been prescribed under paragraph (1), no person shall hawk any other commodities from that pitch.
32. (1) Any person who-a
(a) contravenes regulation 14, 16. 17. 18. 22, 23, 25, 26, 27 or 30 or paragraph (1) of regulation 4, paragraph (3) of regulation 6, paragraph (2) of regulation 8. paragraph (4) of regulation 9. paragraph (1) of regulation 20, paragraph (1) of regulation 21. paragraph (1) of regulation 24 or paragraph (2) or (3) of regulation 31:
(b) without the permission of the Director, hawks in any place of area prescribed under regulation 5 as a place or area within which no hawker may hawk without such permission: (c) knowingly gives to the Director any false information in relation to any of the particulars required to be given to bim under paragraph (1) of regulation 8:
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(d) fails to produce his licence when required to do so under
regulation 19;
(e) fails to comply with any of the requirements of a notice served by the Director under sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (2) of regulation 21; (where, under paragraph (2) of regulation 24, any dimensions applicable to a particular stall have been endorsed on the licence of a hawker, carries on business from that stall if the same is not in accordance with the dimensions so endorsed; or (g) fails to comply with any requirement made under regulation 28, tball be guilty of an offence.
(2) In the event of a contravention of paragraph (2) of regulation 30 or of regulation 29. the proprietor of the cooked food stall in respect
of which the contravention occurred shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) Any person who is guilty of an offence under these regulations shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for six months.
33. Without prejudice to the provisions of any other enactment Name in relating to the prosecution of criminal offences and without prejudice which pro- to the powers of the Attorney General in relation to the prosecution of offences may
ceedings for such offences, prosecutions for an offence under these regulations may be brought." be brought in the name of the Director.
of articles in
34. In the event of the conviction of any person for a contravention Provisions as of the provisions of these regulations specified in the second column of 19 forfeince the Second Schedule or of the requirements of a notice served under certain cases. any such provisions, the articles specified in relation thereto in the third Second column of that Schedule may be forfeited by the court in the circum- Schedulo. stances, if any, specified in the said third column.
35. (1) Any licence of the nature specified in the first columo Transitional of the Table to this paragraph granted under the New Territories Rules Provisions, lating to hawkers revoked by the Food Business (New Territories) (V, X., Regulations, 1963, which is in force at the commencement of these (L.N. 63/63).
p. 89). regulations shall be deemed to be a licence of the class specified opposite herein in the second column of that Table and to have been granted under the provisions of these regulations.
Cooked food stall hawker
licence.
Fixed pitch hawker liccuce. Pedlar hawker licence.
cream and frozen confectious hawker licence.
TABLE.
Class (1) Cooked food stall (full meals) licence,
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Class (ii). Cooked food stall (light meals) licence
(as appropriate),
Class (10). Fixed pitch licence.
Clau (iv). Pedlar hawker ficence.
Class (vii). Ice cream and frozen confectiona
licence.