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Temporary licences.

Pitch carda,

(5) No licence to operate a mobile shop for the sale of food or a mobile canteen shall be granted or renewed unless the Director is satisfied that the mobile shop or canteen to which the licence relates conforms to the plan thereof approved under paragraph (3) or, in the case of the renewal of any such licence where an alteration of, or addition to, the mobile shop or canteen to which the licence relates bas been made, unless the Director is satisfied that the same has been made in accordance with paragraph (4).

10. (1) In respect of any particular place or area, not being a place or area in respect of which an annual licence is concurrently beld by any other person, the Director may grant to any person a temporary licence to hawk for any period not exceeding ten days.

(2) For the purpose of allocating the grant of a temporary licence under paragraph (1), the Director may, from time to time, make uæ ol such of the following methods of allocation as appears to him appropriate, having regard to the occasion upon, and the purpose for. which the temporary licence is to be issued-

(e) grant the licence to any person upon application in writing

therefor and upon payment of the following fees--

(i) twenty-five dollars in respect of any period that includes any day within ten days before or after Chinese New Year Day; or

(ii) five dollars in respect of any other period; (b) call for tenders, and grant the licence to any person who, in the opinion of the Director, is a suitable person to hold such licence and who tenders a fee exceeding--

(1) twenty-five dollars in respect of any period that includes any day within ten days before or after Chinese New Year Day: or

(ii) five dollars in respect of any other period;

(c) grant such number of licences as the Director may determise by ballot among the persons applying therefor, being persons who, in his opinion, are suitable persons to hold such licences, in which case each applicant shall pay to the Director an entrance fee to the ballot of—

(i) five dollars in respect of a licence for any period that includes any day within ten days before or after Chinese New Year Day: or

() one dollar in respect of a licence for any other period.

11. (1) In addition to an annual licence, the Director may issue. free of charge, a card hereinafter referred to as a pitch card.

(2) If a pitch card issued under paragraph (1) has been lost, destroyed or defaced, the Director may, on payment of a fee of onc dollar, issue a duplicate.

12. (1) If the Director is satisfied that an annual licence has been Loss of lost, destroyed or defaced, he shall issue a duplicate thereof.

licence.

(2) In the case of the loss, destruction or defacement of a pedlar hawker licence or a newspaper pedlar licence, the licence shall be deemed to have been cancelled unless, within seven days after its loss. destruction or defacement, as the case may be, the bawker furnishes the Director with either the number of such licence or the date upon which it was granted.

(3) Nothing in paragraph (2) shall be construed to prevent any pedlar hawker or newspaper pedlar hawker whose licence is deemed to have been cancelled under that paragraph from obtaining a new licence upon payment of the appropriate fee.

(4) A fee of five dollars shall be payable for the issue of any duplicate licence under paragraph (1):

Provided that, in the case of a boot-black licence, a fee of ons dollar shall be payable therefor.

13. (1) An annual licence shall be terminated by the death of the Termination bawker to whom it was issued.

(2) Where an annual licence is cancelled or otherwise terminated. otherwise than by reason of the misconduct of the hawker to whom it was issued. the Director may in his discretion refund to such hawker or 10 bis legal personal representative a sum equivalent to that proportion of the fee paid in respect of the licence that the period for which the licence would otherwise have remained in force bears to the period for which the licence was granted:

Provided that the period for which the licence would otherwise bave remained in force shall be reckoned in months and calculated to the nearest month and such refund shall be reckoned in dollars cakolated to the nearest dollar.

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14. Save with the consent in writing of the Director, uo hawker Stall, licences all sublet, transfer or leud any stall or transfer his licence or pitch and pitch card (if any) to any other person.

cards not to be sublet or transferred.

15. (1) Subject to the consent of the Director, a hawker may Appointmeal appoint a deputy for all or any purposes under these regulations for of hawkers'

deputies. such period, not exceeding six months, as the Director considers reason- abk having regard to the circumstances.