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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 10, 1909.

Restrictions on buying and selling

dutiable liquors.

Restrictions on removal of dutiable liquors.

Permit to warehouse liquors.

Deficiency of dutiable liquors in a King's or licensed warehouse.

Bottling,

(3.) No person shall sell or offer for sulo and no person shall buy any dutiable liquors stored elsewhere than in a King's or licensed warehouse,

19.-(1.) No person shall remove any dutiable liquors or denatured spirits from any King's or licensed warehouse without a permit from the Superintendent in the Form No. 11 in the Schedule to this Ordinance and except in accord- ance with the conditions in such permit contained.

(2.) Such permit shall be issued by the Superintendent upon receipt of a requisition in the Form No. 10 in the said Schedule, provided always that the Superintendent shall refuse to issue a permit

(a.) for the removal of any such dutiable liquors except in closed cases or vessels each con- taining not less than two gallons or the reputed equivalent of two gallons;

(b.) if such liquors are to be remove for purposes other than export to any place other than a King's or licensed warehouse except upon pay- ment to him of the duty thereon.

(3.) No removal of any intoxicating liquors or denatured spirits from a King's warehouse shall be authorized until the prescribed storage fees have been paid.

20. No person shall place or cause to be placed in any King's or licensed warehouse any dutiable liquors unless a permit authorising the storage of such liquors therein has been issued under this Ordinance.

21. If it shall appear at any time that there is a defici- ency in any King's or licensed warehouse in the quantity of dutiable liquors which ought to be found stored therein according to the permits for storing and removing liquors issued under this Ordinance the person in charge of such King's warehouse and the licensee of such licensed ware- house shall be liable to pay to the Superintendent the duty leviable upon such deficiency and shall in the absence of proof to the contrary he presumed to have illegally removed sneh liquors provided always that such person in charge or licensee shall not be held liable for any deficiency which he may prove to have been caused by leakage or breakage or other accident.

22. No person shall bottle any dutiable liquors imported otherwise than in bottles except in accordance with rules passed under this Ordinance.

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Restrictions on making

and prepar- ing liquors.

Ordinance

to distill-

PART IV,

Distillation and Manufacture and Sale of Medicated Wines.

23.—(1.) All intoxicating liquors distilled made or prepar- ed by any person holding a licence under the provisions of the Liquor Licences Ordinances, 1898-1908, shall be deemed to be dutiable liquors and the place of distillation making or preparation shall be deemed to be a licensed warehouse for the purpose of storing such liquors and the person holding a licence for such place under the Liquor Licences Ordinances, 1898-1908, shall for the purposes of this Ordinance he deemed to be the licensee of such licensed warchouse.

(2.) There shall be no fee payable in respect of such licensed warehouse.

24. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall apply to not to apply any distillation by a duly qualified medical practitioner or person registered as a chemist and druggist under the Phar- macy Ordinance, 1908, which may be proved to be for gennine medicinal or scientific purposes or to any distilla- tion of essential oils.

ation for medical purposes.

Chemist's

25.-(1.) The Principal Civil Medical Officer may, Licences to upon such conditions as the Governor-in-Council may sell medicat- by regulation prescribe, issue or transfer licences to ed wines. be called Chemist's Licences for the sale by retail of medieated wines for consumption elsewhere than on the

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