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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 400.-The following Bill was read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 12th October, 1933:-

Short title.

Interpreta- tion.

cf. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 15 s. 4.

Ordinance

No. 22 of 1919.

cf. 51 & 52

Vict. c. 33, #. 2;

c. 96, s. 3.

A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 5-5.10.33.-12.]

An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to

miscellaneous licences.

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Miscellaneous Licences Ordinance, 1933.

2. In this Ordinance,

(a) "Auctioneer" means and includes every person who exercises or carries on the trade or business of an auctioneer, or who acts in such capacity at any sale or roup, and every person who sells or offers for sale any goods or chattels, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any interest therein, at any sale or roup where any person or persons become the purchaser of the same by competition, and being the highest bidder, either by being the single bidder or increasing upon the biddings made by others, or decreasing on sums named by the auctioneer or person acting as auctioneer, or other person at such sale or roup, or by any other mode of sale by competition.

(b) "Public dance-hall" means any place opened, kept or used for the purpose of dancing to which the general public are admitted with or without payment for admission unless such place be a place of public entertainment licensed as such under the Places of Public Entertainment Regulation Ordinance, 1919.

(c) "Hawker" means any person who trades in any street or public thoroughfare or goes from place to place, 34 & 35 Vict. selling or exposing for sale any goods, wares or merchandise immediately to be delivered, or exposing samples or patterns of any goods, wares or merchandise to be afterwards delivered, or selling or offering for sale his skill in handicraft, except a person selling or seeking orders for goods, who are dealers wares or merchandise to or from persons therein, and who buy to sell again.

cf. 10 & 11 Geo. 5,

c. lxxxix

ss. 3, 17 & 18.

(d) "Massage establishment" means any premises used or represented as being or intended to be used for the reception or treatment of persons requiring massage or other similar treatment, except a hospital for the time being recognised by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, or except an establishment carried on by a duly registered medical practitioner, or except the premises of a hairdresser, where face or scalp massage is administered to female customers only or is administered in his shop or saloon in full view of all customers resorting thereto.

(e) "Place" means and includes any house, shop, room, office, boat, vehicle or vessel, or any erection movable or otherwise, or any spot on land or water.

(f) "Sale" includes exchange or barter.