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822 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 8, 1909.

No. 627.

Bye-laws made under Section 16 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, (Ordinance No. 1 of 1903).

All bye-laws originally contained in or since added to Schedule B of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinances 1903-1909 under the heading "Markets" are hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor :---

Markets.

1. Market stalls shall be classified and set apart by the Board for the sale respectively

of meat, poultry, game, fish, fruit, vegetables, and such other perishable goods. 2. All market stalls shall be numbered.

3. A Register of all market stalls shall be kept by the Head of the Sanitary Depart- ment in the Form A appended to these bye-laws. Every entry in such Register shall be primâ facic evidence of the facts therein appearing. The person or persons whose name or names is or are entered in such Register as the lessee is or are hereinafter referred to as the "Stall-holder".

4. Copies of the Market Bye-laws shall be at all times posted in conspicuous positions

in the markets.

5. The Board shall, from time to time, fix the hours during which each market shall be open to the public. The hours during which any market is open to the public shall be posted on a board placed in a conspicuous position at such market. At least one month's previous notice in writing shall be given to each stall-holder of any alteration in the hours during which any market is open to the public.

6. No stall-holder shall use such stall for any purpose other than that for which it is let. 7. Every stall-holder. who absents himself from the Colony for a period exceeding one month, shall notify such fact to the Head of the Sanitary Department and report to him the name of the agent responsible for his stall during his absence. 8. Every occupied stall shall have a sign-board in front showing in full, both in English and Chinese, the name or names of the stall-holder or holders and his or their photograph or photographs shall be affixed thereto. All photographs shall be renewed from time to time as the Head of the Sanitary Department may direct. 3. No sign-board or blind of any market stall shall be so arranged as to obstruct any thoroughfare in such market, and no stall-holder shall place or store any goods outside such market stall or allow them to project beyond it.

10. No person shall make use of any avenue or thoroughfare of any market for the conveyance of merchandise not intended for sale or exposure for sale in such market.

11. To person shall sell, offer or expose for sale any article in any part of the market

other than the part thereof which is appropriated for the sale of such article.

12. No person shall hawk or cry any article whatever for sale in any market. 13. No stall-bolder shall keep any dog in any market, nor shall any person knowingly

permit any dog to follow him into a market.

14. Stall-holders who require additional light in their stalls shall use only electric lamps or smokeless oil lamps of a pattern to approved by the Head of the Sanitary Department.

15. No flesh meat, (salted meat excepted), other than that which has been slaugh- tered in the Government Slaughter-houses maintained and regulated under the provisions of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinances shall be exposed for sale in any of the markets of the Colony.

The Board may, however from time to time, grant permission in writing, revocable at the discretion of the Board, to any stall-holder to expose for sale in his stall, fresh flesh meat which has been imported from Shanghai, Japan, Canada or Australia or from such other localities as the Board may from time to time approve; such permission shall state the name of the person to whom it is granted, the class or description of meat permitted, and the shop or stall on which such meat is to be exposed for sale.

The stall-holder, to whom such permission has been granted, shall cause a Ioard to be posted on his stall, in a conspicuous position, stating in English and Chinese that he deals in imported meat, and stating also the place from whence such meat was imported; the letters and characters of such notice shall be at least one and a half inches long. He shall also make a true return to the Board, quarterly, of the quantity of meat imported by him, specifying whence such meat has been imported.

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