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(b) prohibit the manager or any person concerned in the management of any hotel from providing specified accommoda- tion to any specified class or classes of persons or from providing specified accommodation otherwise than to a specified class;
(c) limit the number of persons which may be accom- modated in any particular room or class of room;
(d) exempt from the operation of any regulations made under paragraph (a) hereof any accommodation or direct that any accommodation shall be so exempted if it is with the consent of the Quartering Authority applied to other uses during any period to which such consent relates;
(e) require the manager or any person concerned in the management of any hotel to supply any specified services;
(f) fix a maximum charge for any specified service provided by any hotel, including a maximum charge for any particular accommodation or class of accommodation, or direct that a charge for any service included as aforesaid shall be computed in such manner and by reference to such matters as may be specified;
(g) prohibit the making of any charge by the manager or by any person concerned in the management of a hotel for any specified service or for any service except specified services;
(h) require that action shall be taken to bring the provisions of any regulations made hereunder to the notice of the public or of persons seeking accommodation or requiring the performance of any service in any hotel;
(i) require the manager or any person concerned in the management of any hotel to produce to the Quartering Authority such information as may reasonably be required for the purposes of this Ordinance or any regulation made hereunder.
(2) Any regulation made under paragraph (a) of sub- section (1) which provides for the allocation of a portion of the accommodation of a hotel may provide-
(a) that in the event of any failure of agreement between the Quartering Authority and the manager of the hotel that the allocation is a satisfactory compliance with the regulations the matter shall be referred to the final determination of such persons as the Governor shall appoint;
(b) that such persons may in their discretion arrive at a determination without hearing the parties to the difference or any person acting on their behalf; and
(c) that such determination shall be final and conclusive for all purposes whatsoever.
(8) (a) All regulations made by the Quartering Authority shall be submitted to the Governor, and shall not come into force until they have been approved by resolution of the Legislative Council.
(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.
Authority
5. Any person appointed by the Governor as Quartering Powers of Authority and any person deputed by such Quartering Authority Quartering in writing shall have power at all reasonable times to enter and and persons inspect any hotel for the purpose of ascertaining whether this acting Ordinance or any regulation made hereunder are being contravened, under his authority. 6. A person shall not be deemed to be concerned in the Interpreta-
tion of management of a hotel merely by reason of being a director or
"person officer of the corporation which owns a hotel or carries on the concerned business thereof but any such director or officer and any other in the person who is in any other way concerned in such management and management any employee acting within the scope of his authority shall be of a hotel”. deemed to be so concerned.
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;
(e) 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.
Offences.
8. (1) Any contravention of any regulation made under this Penalties. 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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