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Responsi- bility for acts of

agents and servants.

Ordinance No. 34 of 1910, s. 6.

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PART IV.

General.

86.-(1) Whenever any person to whom any licence has been granted under this Ordinance or under any Ordinance repealed by this Ordinance, or under the New Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910, or any person in charge of a general bonded warehouse, is liable under the provisions of this Ordinance to any punishment, penalty, or forfeiture for any act, omission, or neglect, he shall be liable to the same punishment, penalty, or forfeiture for every similar act, omission, or neglect of any agent or servant employed by him in or about his licensed premises or general bonded warehouse, and every agent or servant employed by him in or about his licensed premises or general bonded warehouse shall also be liable to every punishment, penalty, or forfeiture prescribed for such acts, omissions, or neglect contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance as fully and effectually as if such agent or servant had been the person to whom such licence had been granted or had been the person in charge of such general bonded warehouse.

Presumption (2) Every person employed in or about any licensed of employ-

premises or general bonded warehouse shall until the ment,

contrary is proved be deemed to have been so employed by the person mentioned in the licence or by the person in charge of the general bonded warehouse, as the case may be.

Contents

and signature of requisi. tions.

Third

Schedule.

Regula- tions.

87. Every requisition required by the provisions of Part II shall contain the particulars required by the forms in the Third Schedule and shall be signed by the person applying for such requisition or by some person duly authorised by him: Provided that in the case of any Chinese firm such requisition shall, in addition to such signature, be stamped with the chop of such firm.

88. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for any of the following pur- poses:

(1) to regulate the standard of quality or to determine the quality of any intoxicating liquors or wines or spirits to be manufactured and sold under the provisions of this Ordin- ance, and to regulate the material to be used therein, and for the branding or labelling of such liquors and such wines and spirits;

(2) to regulate the import and export possession and sale of intoxicating liquors, and the licensing of persons and ships for those purposes;

(3) to regulate the management of general bonded warehouses, and to prescribe fees for storage in such warehouses, and to authorise the forfeiture of any intoxicating liquors or denatured spirits not cleared from such ware- house within periods to be fixed by such regulations;

(4) to regulate the licensing and management of

breweries;

(5) to regulate the management of distilleries and places for distilling, making, and pre- paring intoxicating liquors, and the safe- guarding of the revenue to be derived from the duty upon liquors distilled, made, or prepared therein;

(6) to regulate the examination of the baggage

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