Friday, November 10, 1972
PEDLAR HAWKER LICENCES TO BE DISCONTINUED IN THE NEW TERRITORIES
The Urban Services Department will stop issuing new Pedlar Hawker
Licences in the New Territories from February 1 next year.
Announcing this today, a spokesman for the department said:
"This
The
will discontinue the present policy of unrestricted issue of licences.
move is in line with the policy already adopted by the Urban Council in the
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Pedlar Hawker Licences for the New Territories will still be obtain-
able on or before January 31, 1973 at the District Offices of Tsuen Wan, Yuen
Long and Tai Po, and the Post Offices at Sai Kung, Peng Chau, Tai 0, Mui Wo
and Cheung Chau. Applicants should bring along two photographs and $10 for
the licence fee.
Renewal of existing valid licences will continue as before and will
not be affected.
"Pedlar Hawker Licences entitle the holders to trade only on an
itinerant basis," the spokesman said, "all bona fide hawkers who have failed
to obtain a licence or to renew expired licences are urged to obtain them
before February 1."
"It is proposed to introduce new regulations shortly under which
hawking without a licence will lead to mandatory forfeiture of goods and
equipment," the spokesman stressed.
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