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and persons acting under his authority. Interpreta- tion of "person concerned
THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(b) The regulations in the Schedule shall be in force except so far as they may be rescinded or amended by regulations made under this section.
5. Any person appointed by the Governor as Quartering Authority and any person deputed by such Quartering Authority in writing shall have power at all reasonable times to enter and inspect any hotel for the purpose of ascertaining whether this Ordinance or any regulation made hereunder are being contravened.
6. A person shall not be deemed to be concerned in the management of a hotel merely by reason of being a director or officer of the corporation which owns a hotel or carries on the business thereof but any such director or officer and any other management person who is in any other way concerned in such management and any employee acting within the scope of his authority shall he deemed to be so concerned.
in the
of
a
hotel".
Offences.
Penalties.
7. It shall be an offence against this Ordinance-
(a) for any person to provide, agree to provide or offer to provide or to procure, or seek to procure that another shall provide, any accommodation or service in relation to a hotel except for the uses and at the charges sanctioned by or under this Ordinance, or to provide any accommodation or service which it would be a contravention of any regulations made hereunder to provide, or for a consideration other than a monetary consideration;
(b) for any person to contravene any regulation made hereunder;
(c) for the manager or person concerned in the manage- ment of any hotel to supply any information which he may be lawfully required to furnish hereunder which he knows or has reason to believe is inaccurate in any material particular or by reason of the omission of any material particular;
(d) for the manager or person concerned in the manage- ment of any hotel to refuse to supply to a person being accommo- dated in a hotel any service in respect of which a maximum charge has been fixed or has been directed to be computed under this Ordinance or any regulation made hereunder for any reason other than such reason as a magistrate shall deem sufficient.
8. (1) Any contravention of any regulation made under this Ordinance shall be punished on summary conviction by imprison- ment for any term not exceeding six months and by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and save in so far as a lesser penalty is not provided by regulation any such contravention and any offence against this Ordinance or regulation made hereunder shall be so punishable.
(2) Where any person concerned in the management of a hotel is convicted of contravening any regulation made under paragraph (f) of sub-section (1) of section 4, the magistrate may in addition to any punishment which he may lawfully impose order
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the person who is carrying on the business of such hotel to pay a sum equivalent to the value of any charge in excess of the maximum or permitted charge to the person upon whom such excess charge was imposed.
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The Price Control (Hotels) (Control of Charges) Repeal. Regulations, 1948, are hereby repealed and any charges fixed A.190 of thereunder shall be deemed never to have been applicable.
1948.
10. This Ordinance shall come into force on such day as the Commence. Governor shall notify by proclamation in the Gazette.
ment.
11. This Ordinance shall continue in force until and including Duration. the 31st December, 1950: Provided that it shall be lawful for the Legislative Council from time to time by resolution to extend the duration of this Ordinance for such term, not exceeding one year at a time, as may be specified in such resolution.
1949.
1.
SCHEDULE
THE HOTELS ORDINANCE, 1949. (Section 4(3))
REGULATIONS.
Citation.
These regulations may be cited as The Hotel Regulations,
These regulations shall apply to the hotels listed in Application. Column I of the First Schedule hereto.
2.
3. In these regulations—
"the Ordinance" means The Hotels Ordinance, 1949; "Hong Kong resident" means a person who has been declared in writing under the hand of the Quartering Authority to be a person who is in his opinion a resident of the Colony of Hong Kong;
"maximum capacity" means in respect of any room in a hotel the maximum number of persons over the age of ten years who may be accommodated in the respective type of room mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto.
Interpreta-
tion.
4. A declaration that a person is a Hong Kong resident shall Declaration be in the Form I prescribed in the Third Schedule hereto which of Hong
Kong form may be completed in advance of such a person's arrival in resident. the Colony upon request by his employer or by a person authorised
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