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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 3, 1909.

Short title and con- struction.

Amends

section 5 of the Order

and Clean- liness

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Order and Clean-

liness Ordinance, 1867.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--

1. This Ordinance may be cited “The Order and Clean- liness Amendment Ordinance, 1909 ".

2. In lieu of the sum of Five dollars as prescribed by section 5 of the Order and Cleanliness Ordinance, 1867, there shall hereafter be paid for a licence by any Chinese to act as a money changer in the Colony an annual sum Amendment of Ten dollars. Ordinance, 1867.

Validation of

past pay- ments.

3. In so far as the said sum of Ten dollars has prior to the passing of this Ordinance been collected and paid annually in respect of any such licences such payments are hereby validated and legalised as if the same had been duly authorised and collected under the said section.

Memorandum.

Under a Government Notification made under section 3 of Ordinance 8 of 1887 a fee of ten dollars has been charged for licences to money changers whereas this part of that Ordinance does not apply to the New Territories na a fee of five dollars should have been charged under section 5 of Ordinance 2 of 1867.

The bill proposes to increase the charge imposed under the last named Ordinauce to ten dollars and to legalise the collections hitherto made.

A BILL

F. A. HAZELAND,

Attorney General,

Short title and con- struction.

Amendment

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Liquor Licences Ordinance, 1898, and the Liquor Licences Extension Ordinance, 1908, and to repeal the Liquor Licences Amendment Ordinance, 1902.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Liquor Licences Amendment Ordinance, 1909, and it shall be read and construed as one with the Liquor Licences Ordinance, 1898, hereinafter referred to as the Principal Ordinance, and with the Liquor Licences Extension Ordinance, 1908, and this Ordinance and the said Ordinances may hereafter be cited together as the Liquor Licences Ordinances, 1898-

1909.

2. Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby of definitions amended by repealing the definitions of " wholesale licence", in Principal

‘adjunct licence” and “grocer's licence" and substituting Ordinance.

therefor the following definitions :—

'Wholesale

"

means the sale of intoxicating liquors by the unopened cask, jar or case in quantities of not less than two gallons of one liquor at one time, such liquors not to be consumed on the premises.

Hotel keeper's adjunct licence" means a licence to hotel or boarding house keepers for the retail sale of intoxicating liquors for consumption on the premises,—

(a.) to persons residing at the time of sale on the

licensed premises :

"