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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bill.

No. S. 158.-The following bill is published for genera I information:

C.S.O. 2772/21.

[No. 7:-27.3.34.—1.]

A BILL

Short title.

Amendment of Ordin-

ance No. 25 of 1933,

s. 2.

cf. 51 &

52 Vict. c. 33

....

s. 2:

34 & 35

Vict. c. 96, s. 3.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Miscellaneous Licences Ordinance,

1933.

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 Amendment Ordinance, 1934.

2. Section 2 of the Miscellaneous Licences Ordinance, 1933, is amended by the substitution of the following para- graph for paragraph (c) thereof :-

(c) "Hawker" means any person who trades in any street or public thoroughfare or goes from place to place, or goes on board any vessel, selling or exposing for sale any goods, wares or merchandise immediately to be delivered, or exposing sam- ples 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, wares or merchandise to or from persons who are dealers therein, and who buy to sell again.

Objects and Reasons.

1. The definition of a hawker in section 2 of the principal Ordinance does not include persons who sell only on board one vessel. The amended definition extends the definition by the addition of the words "or goes on board any vessel" to include such persons.

April, 1934.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.