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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 28, 1941.

Restaurants, Eating-houses and Food Stalls.

28. Except under and in accordance with a licence granted by the Proper Authority for a Restaurant or Eating- house, or for a Hawkers Food Stall granted under rule 90, no person shall sell or expose for sale any article of cooked food for man usually sold or exposed for sale ready for immediate consumption. Such licence shall be in addition to any licence issued under the Dutiable Commodities Ordin- ance, 1931.

29. Any person desirous of obtaining such restaurant or eating-house licence shall make application to the Proper Authority in the form C in the Schedule for which purpose Schedule blank forms can be obtained from the Proper Authority at Form C. his office. Every such person shall also lodge a plan or sketch of the premises.

30. All such licences shall be for the period of one year and shall expire on the last day of June next after the day of the date thereof.

31. The fee of $20.00 is hereby prescribed and shall be paid to the Proper Authority in advance for a restaurant or eating-house licence: Provided that in respect of any such licence issued after the last day of December half only of the above fee shall be charged and paid.

32. Every licensee of a restaurant or eating-house shall cause to be legibly painted or fixed, and shall keep so painted or fixed, on his premises, in a conspicuous place, in English letters and in Chinese characters at least four inches long. his name followed by the words "Licensed Restaurant or "Licensed Eating-house", together with the number of his licence.

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33.-(1) The whole of the ground floor of the premises of every licensed premises shall be covered with a layer of not less than three inches of cement-concrete rendered smooth and laid to the satisfaction of the Proper Authority.

(2) Adequate kitchen, food preparation, food storage and scullery accommodation shall be provided to the satisfaction of the Proper Authority and the walls of the accommodation so provided shall be imperviously surfaced to a minimum height of eight feet.

(3) Except with the consent of the Proper Authority there shall be no deviation from the arrangements shewn in the plan or sketch provided under rule 29 for kitchen, food preparation, food storage, scullery, seating, latrine or any other accommodation required or approved of by the Proper Authority on the issue of a licence.

34. Except with the special exemption in writing of the Proper Authority no ceiling (not being the underside of a floor), hollow wall or stairlining shall remain or be fixed in any building in which or in part or parts of which the premises of the licensee are situated.

35. (1) No living room, sleeping place, partitions, cubicles or mezzanine floors shall be allowed on any licensed premises except with the permission of the Proper Authority and as shown on the plan or sketch of the premises.

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