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A BILL

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[No. 6:--11.4.35.—4.]

An Ordinance to enable the Urban Council to make by-laws with respect to the regulation and control by registration, licensing or otherwise of certain hawkers.

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 Hawkers Ordin- Short title. ance, 1935.

Urban

2. The Urban Council may make by-laws with respect Power of to the regulation and control by registration, licensing or Council to otherwise of persons hawking any kind of commodity other make than cigars, cigarettes and tobacco.

by-laws for hawkers other than bawkers of cigars, cigarettes and tobacco.

3. All by-laws made by the Urban Council under By-laws to section 2 shall be submitted to the Governor and shall be be sumitted subject to the approval of the Legislative Council.

to the Governor and subject to the approval of Legislative Council.

4. The by-laws in the Schedule shall be deemed to have Enactment been made under this Ordinance and shall be in force except Schedule.

of by-laws as they may be rescinded, suspended, amended or added to by by-laws made by the Urban Council under section 2.

5.--(1) Every person who contravenes any of the Penalties. provisions of any by-law under this Ordinance shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, as well as to suffer any forfeiture that may be prescribed therein.

(2) Any licence issued under any by-law under this Ordinance shall be liable to cancellation by the Urban Council on the breach of any by-law to which the holder of such licence is subject or on breach of any condition of the licence.

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6. In the absence of an officer of police it shall be Power of lawful for any officer of the Sanitary Department, in whose absence of presence a contravention of any by-law under this Ordinance police has been committed, to arrest the offender and either give him into the custody of an officer of police or take him to the nearest police station: Provided that no such arrest shall be effected except in a public place or place of public resort or unless it is impracticable to proceed against the offender by complaint and summons.