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TABLE OF CORRESPONDENCE.

BETWEEN

The Miscellaneous Licences Ordinance, 1933, and Ordinance No 8 of 1887.

Section

of new Ordinance.

Section

of No. 8

of 1887.

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2

3

5

7

8

9

10

11

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Remarks.

New definitions added, viz: (a) "Auc- tioncer' (b) "Fublic dance-hall" (c) "Hawker" (d) "Massage establishment" (e) "Place" ("Sale", which terms appear in the Schedule or in the Ordin-

ance.

Power to classify the occupations, etc., for which licences may be issued, precautions against fire, maintenance of peace and good order, means of securing hygienic conditions, entry and inspection of licensed places, exemption of trade etc, in specified areas, added.

Re-drafted and amended. Penalties ex.

tracted to new section 8.

for

Re-drafted. Power to cancel licence

misconduct added, on the lines of old section 13 (2) and applied to all licences.

New. Empowers a magistrate to issue a search warrant on sworn information of an offence.

New. Makes any breach of the Ordinance, a regulation, or condition of licence an offence.

New. Fixes a maximum penalty of $250 in all cases, below which it is considered thut the allocation of penalties may be left to the discretion of a magistrate.

New. Makes & licensee liable for his servant's offence, and imposes liability on the servant in respect of such offence. Regulations in Second Schedule.

Preserves existing licences.

Repeals. S. 4 of Ord. No. 34 of 1910 is repealed, provision being made in S. 3 (8) of this Ordinance for certain exemp- tions, a power which is exercised as

and regards hawkers

undertakers of burials in the New Territories (except New Kowloon) in Parts III and VIII of the Regulations in the Second Schedule. S. 73 of Ord. No. 34 of 1910 is also Pro- repealed, as no longer necessary. vision for money-changers in the New Territories is made in the Schedule, and all pawnbrokers licences will in future be issued by the Inspector General of Police: of these only three licences, formerly issued by the District Officer, North under the repealed section, be affected.

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