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PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE, 140
(No. 30 of 1960).
PRIVATE MARKETS (NEW TERRITORIES) REGULATIONS, 1963.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 80 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, the Governor in Counci has made the following regulations-
PART 1.
PRELIMINARY,
I. These regulations may be cited as the Private Markets (New Territories) Regulations, 1963, and shall come into operation on the Ist day of July, 1963.
1. These regulations apply to the New Territories only.
3. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires- "commodity" includes live stock;
"Director" means the Director of Urban Services;
"licensed stallholder" means a person licensed under regulation 22 0
carry on business from a stall in a private market; "owner", in relation to a private market, means the person by whom
the market place is operated;
"private marker" includes any building, shop, stall, shed, por, or standing and any drainage or latrine accommodation appartensor thereto, which comprise or form part of the market place; "stall" includes any pen or cage.
PART II.
REGISTRATION OF PRIVATE MARKETS
AND REGULATION THEREOF GENERALLY.
4. (1) No private market shall be carried on unless it is registered by the Director.
(2) No private market shall be registered by the Director unless- (4) plans of the market place, including plans of all buildings, stalls, sheds, pens, storerooms, latrine accommodation and drainage works appurtenant to the market place have been approved by the Director; and
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(b) at the time of registration such plans are accurate.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph (2), the Director may refuse to register any private market if he considers the registration thereof not to be in the public interest.
(4) Subject to the provisions of regulation 29, for the purposes of first registration of any private market, the application therefor shall be submitted to the Director accompanied by two copies of the plans referred to in paragraph (2).
(5) Subject to the provisions of regulation 29, every plan, or any modification thereof, submitted to the Director for the purposes of an application for the registration of a private market shall, when it is approved by him, be endorsed to that effect, and one copy thereof shall be returned to the applicant.
(6) Every registration of a private market shall be renewable annually on the first day of July.
(7) The registration or the renewal of the registration of a private market shall be subject to the payment in advance to the Treasury of a fee calculated at the rate of ten dollats per stall (whether or not any Hall is occupied) up to a maximum fee of one thousand dollars:
Provided that, where a private market is first registered in the second half of any year of registration, the fee payable in respect of the grant of registration shall be one half of the fee prescribed.
5. No alteration or addition shall be made to any private market Restriction
alteration or to any structure, or stall or any latrine or drainage works comprising of res any part of the market place otherwise than in accordance with plans building or approved by the Director.
stalls.
6. (1) If in the opinion of the Director any part of a private Maintenance market is in such a state by reason of dilapidation or lack of repair of markets.
and repair
a to be unfit or unsuitable for the purpose of a private market, the Director, by notice served upon the owner of such market, may require him within such period, not being less than thirty days after the service of the notice, as shall be specified in the notice, to remedy such dilapida- tion or carry out such repairs to the satisfaction of the Director as shall be specified in the notice.
(2) If the owner of a private market fails to comply with the Requirements of any notice served upon him in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1), the Director may enter upon the premises in which the market is carried on and may carry out or cause to be carried out all such work as may be necessary for compliance with the notice and may recover the cost thereof from the owner of the market.