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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 20, 1909.

No. 512.

Rules made by the Governor-in-Council under Section 3 of the New Territories (Regulation) Ordinance, 1899, (Ordinance No. 8 of 1899), this 19th day of August, 1909.

KEROSINE OIL LICENCES IN THE NEW TERRITORIES (EXCEPTING NEW KOWLOON).

1. The expressions "New Territories" and "New Kowloon" shall have respectively the meanings assigned to them in section 2 of the New Territories (Extension of Laws) Ordinance, 1900.

2. The expressions "Northern District" and "Southern District" shall have respect- ively the meaning

gs assigned to them in the Order made by the Governor-in-Council on the 26th day of April, 1909, and published in Government Notification No. 263 of 1909.

3. No person shall store or sell or permit to be stored or sold any Kerosine Oil in the New Territories, not including New Kowloon, unless he holds a licence in the Form set out in the Schedule to these Rules.

4. Such licence shall be granted in respect of the Northern District by the District Officer and in respect of the Southern District by the Captain Superintendent of Police and it shall expire on the 17th day of April in each year.

5. The fee payable in respect of such licence shall be two dollars per year or part of a year during which such licence is in force.

Such fee shall be paid to the Colonial Treasurer or to such officer as he may direct to receive it.

6. It any licensee commits a breach of these Rules or of any of the conditions enfaced

on his licence, such licence may be forfeited and cancelled by the Governor-in-Council with- out prejudice to any other penalty to which he may be liable.

7. The Rules made by the Officer Administering the Government-in-Council on the 5th day of September, 1902, and published in Government Notification No. 549 of 1902 are hereby cancelled.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils.

19th August, 1909.

SCHEDULE.

Fee $2.

LICENCE TO STORE AND SELL KEROSINE OIL IN THE

NEW TERRITORIES.

The New Territories (Regulation) Ordinance, 1899.

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is hereby licensed to store and sell Kerosine Oil, the quantity to be stored at any time not to exceed forty gallons, upon the premises of the. from the.... ....day of...................... .19 until the 17th day of April, 19

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Captain Superintendent of Police

or

District Officer.

Conditions.

1. The Kerosine shall be kept until sold in the original tins in which it has been im- ported, or put after being imported in bulk, which tins shall be stored in a well sunk in the ground and lined with brick provided with a close fitting wooden cover lined with sheet iron or a cover wholly of sheet iron for the purpose of making the well air-tight and of extin- guishing fire in case of the Kerosine igniting.

2. The licensee shall upon the request of any European Policeman show to him every and any place, and all and any of the tins in which Kerosine Oil in his possession is kept, and give him such assistance as he may require for examining the same.

Note.-Application for licences may be made through the Police Officer' in charge of the Police Station nearest to the place of business in respect of which such licences are to be exercised. Such Police Officer has been deputed by the Colonial Treasurer to receive all fees due in respect of such licences.

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