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"The New Territories" mean the additional territories acquired under the Convention dated the 9th day of June, 1898, between Her Majesty Queen Victoria and His Majesty the Emperor of China for the enlargement of the limits of the Colony including the city of Kowloon.

Prohibition

PART I.-LICENCES.

Distillery Licences.

3.-(1.) No person shall make, distil, or rectify any of distilling spirits, or shall knowingly keep or have in his possession any still or other utensil or apparatus for making, distill- ing, or rectifying spirits, without a licence under this Ordinance.

without licence and provision

for issue of distilling licence.

First

Schedule:

(2.) The Captain Superintendent of Police may issue distillery licences, in the Form No. 1 in the First Form No. 1. Schedule to this Ordinance, on each of which licences the fee specified in the Second Schedule to this Ordinance shall be payable in advance.

Second

Schedule.

Issue of free licence for

apothecary,

chemist, or druggist to

(3.) Such conditions as the Governor-in-Council may from time to time determine may be added to such licences.

(4) Every licensed distiller may sell the liquor which he distils, but only in quantities of not less than two galloas of one liquor at one time, and such liquor so sold must not be consumed on the premises.

(5.) Every holder of a distillery licence under this Ordinance or under the New Territories Regulation Or- dinance, 1910, shall permit the Superintendent or any Revenue Officer to enter the premises in which distillation is being carried on at any time during the process of such

distillation.

4.-(1.). It shall be lawful for the Captain Superintend- ent of Police to issue a licence, free of all charge, to any apothecary, chemist or druggist applying for the same, to keep and use on his premises a still of not more than have still of eight gallons capacity for the purpose of his trade only: eight gallons Provided that every such person shall give a bond to the capacity. Captain Superintendent of Police, with two sufficient sureties, in the sum of one thousand dollars, that the still shall not exceed eight gallons capacity, and that he will not make use of such still, or suffer it to be made use of, except for the preparation of medicines or other articles required bonâ fide for medical or scientific purposes.

Distilling,

&c. adulter- ated liquor.

(2.) Every such person found to have such still without having entered into such bond and obtained such licence shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this

Ordinance.

5.-(1.) Every person who distils, makes, imports, sells, disposes of, or deals in any adulterated liquor shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance, and, if such adulterated liquor is proved to the satisfaction of a Magistrate to be injurious to health, he shall, on a second conviction, be liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding six mouths, besides any other penalties to which he may be liable under this Ordinance.

(2.) No person shall be convicted u der this section if he shows, to the satisfaction of the Magistrate before whom he is charged, that he did not know that the liquor imported, sold, disposed of, or dealt in by him was adulterated, and that he could not have known it with any reasonable diligence.

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