1951-HKRS28-8-18_Part02 — Page 7

Citation.

Printing press licence.

Forms of licences.

Fees.

Recorda

IS

PART II.

PRINTING PRESSES.

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7. Except with the prior permission of the Commissioner Restriction

upon of Police, no printing press or part of a printing press in respect removal. of which a Class II licence has been issued shall be removed Class II

licence, 1. These regulations may be cited as the Printing Presses from the place specified in the licence. (Licensing) Regulations, 1951.

2. It shall be lawful for the Commissioner of Police in his discretion to grant to any person a licence to keep a printing press at any specified place or to exempt any person in respect of such printing press as may be specified in such exemption from the provisions of subsections (1) and (2) of section 8 of the Ordinance.

3.

Any licences under these regulations may be in Form No. or Form No. 2 in the Schedule to these regulations with such variations as to the Commissioner of Police may deem fit.

*. The fee for a licence to keep printing presses with a view to sale or hire (in these regulations referred to as a Class licence and which is in Form No. r in the Schedule) shall be $100 for a year or part of a year. The fee for any other licence granted under section 8 of the Ordinance (in these regulations

referred to as a Class 11 licence and which is in Form No. 2 in the Schedule) shall be $40 for a year or part of a year.

5.

In the case of every Class I licence the licensee shall to be kept. keep an up-to-date record of all his dealings and transactions relating to the printing presses, and parts of printing presses kept by him, which record shall include particulars of the names and addresses of all purchasers and hirers, and the places of delivery and intended destination, of every printing press or part of a printing press removed from the place specified in the licence Such record, and the licensee's stock of printing presses and parts of printing presses, shall be produced by the licensee to the Commissioner of Police, or to any police officer deputed by him in that behalf, on demand.

Records, etc.. to be produced.

Restriction upon removal. Class I licence.

6. Except with the prior permission of the Commissioner of Police, no printing press or part of a printing press in respect of which a Class I licence has been issued shall be removed from the place specified in the licence unless such removal is in respect of a bona fide sale or hiring, fully recorded in accordance with regulation 5.

8. If a licence is refused it shall be lawful for the applicant Appeal against within fourteen days from the date of the refusal to appeal to refusal to the Governor in Council against such refusal, and upon con- grant

licence. sideration of such appeal and of any reply thereto submitted in writing by the Commissioner of Police it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to allow or to dismiss the appeal, and if The allows the appeal to give such directions as may be necessary

in order to give effect to such allowance.

9. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council in his Cancella-

tion of

licence.

discretion to order any printing press licence to be cancelled. printing No such order shall be made until notice of intention to consider press the making of such order has been served on the licensee in Every such accordance with the provisions of regulation 10. notice shall contain a statement of the grounds upon which it is alleged that the order should be made and shall allow to the the notice, within which the licensee shall be at liberty to deliver licensee a period of fourteen days from the date of the service of

for cause to be delivered to the Clerk of Councils a written state- ment of any reasons which he may wish to urge against the Upon the expiration of the said period making of the order. consider and decide whether the order should not be made. Any it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to proceed to

such order of cancellation shall be served on the licensee in the deemed to have been brought to the notice of the licensee and to manner referred to in this regulation and shall thereupon be

be effective for all purposes. Upon service of the order of cancellation the licence shall forthwith be returned by the licensee to the Commissioner of Police. No person shall without lawful authority or excuse have in his possession any printing press licence which has been cancelled.

10. The notice referred to in regulation 9 may be served by Service of delivering it personally to the licensee if the licensee is an

notice. individual, or by delivering it personally to some officer of the corporation if the licensee is a corporation, or by leaving the notice with some adult person at the licensed premises, or by posting up the notice outside the licensed premises if service cannot be effected in any other way.