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Name to be exhibited at auctions.

Production of licence.

Liquor and tobacco.

Conditions.

Exemp- tion of New Territories, except New

Kowloon.

4. Every auctioneer, before beginning any auction, shall affix or suspend, or cause to be affixed or suspended, a ticket or board. containing his true and full personal and surname and residence painted, printed, or written in large letters and Chinese characters publicly visible and legible, in some conspicuous part of the place or premises where the auction is held so that all persons may easily read the same, and shall also keep such ticket or board so affixed or suspended during the whole time of such auction held.

5. Any person acting as an auctioneer shall on demand of any European officer of police produce and show to such officer, or within twenty four hours produce and show to the officer on duty at the charge room at the Central Police Station, a proper licence to him granted under the Ordinance.

6. No licence taken out by any person to exercise or carry on the trade or business of an auctioneer shall authorise such person to deal in or sell, either on his own account or for the benefit of any other person, any liquor or tobacco for the dealing in or selling of which a licence is required under any Ordinance for the time being in force relating to the same, except upon premises in respect of which the owner of such liquor or tobacco shall have taken out and shall have in force at the time of the sale thereof the proper licence for the sale of such liquor or tobacco:

Provided that any such licensed auctioneer may sell by auction, by sample, any such liquor or tobacco as aforesaid, if the owner thereof shall be duly licensed for the sale of such liquor or tobacco and provided also that the Superintendent of Imports and Exports may in his discretion authorise any licensed auctioneer to sell any such liquor or tobacco by auction where he shall be satisfied that the said liquor or tobacco is the property of a private person, and is not sold for profit or by way of trade.

7. The holder of every auctioneer's licence shall observe the following conditions, and such special conditions as the licensing authority nay in his discretion impose, which shall be endorsed on the licence:—

(1) Except with the written permission of the licensing authority. the licensee shall not transfer, lend or hire his licence to any person,

(2) No auction shall take place except between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.

PART III-HAWKERS.

The regulations in this Part, and so much of the Ordinance as makes it an offence to carry on the trade of a hawker except under and in accordance with a licence shall not apply to any hawker in the New Territories, except New Kowloon.

A. HAWKERS GENERALLY.

Classifica- tion.

Forms. Appendix.

Trade limited

to class

of licence.

The following regulations shall apply to all licensed hawkers

1. There shall be five classes of licence for hawkers, namely

(1) hawker's (itinerant) licence;

(2) hawker's (stallholders) licence;

(3) hawker's (native craft) licence;

(4) hawker's (steamships) licence; and

(5) hawker's (newspaper) licence.

2. The forms of such licences shall be respectively those in Forms Nos. 2A, 2B, 2C, 21, and 2E in the Appendix to these regulations.

3. The trade of every licensed hawker is strictly limited to the class of his licence: for instance, the holder of a hawker's (itinerant) licence, a hawker's (stallholders) licence, or a hawker's (native craft) licence may not carry on his trade on any steamship.

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