580 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 12, 1917.
Liability of employer.
Liability of buyer.
Penalty.
Amendment
4. Where any intoxicating liquor is sold by a servant or employee in contravention of section 3 of this Ordi- nance the employer, whether a natural person or a body corporate, shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance unless he proves affirmatively flat the sale was against his express orders and without his consent or connivance.
5. Every person to whom any liquor is, to the know- ledge of such person, supplied in contravention of this Ordinance shall also be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.
6. Every person who is guilty of an offence against this Ordinance shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
7. Sections 52 and 53 of the Liquors Consolidation of Ordinance Ordinance, 1911, are repealed and the following sections
are substituted therefor :---
No. 9 of
1911, ss. 52 and 53.
Addition to Third Schedule of Ordinance No. 9 of 1911.
export
statements to be
furnished.
Import and 52. (1.) The owners charterers agents and master of every ship which arrives in the waters of the Colony shall within four hours after such arrival, or so soon there- after as the office of the Superintendent may be open, furnish to the Superintendent a true accurate and complete statement of all dutiable liquors imported thereon.
Contents and form of import and export state-
ments.
(2.) The owners charterers and agents of every ship which leaves the waters of the Colony shall within twenty-four hours after such departure, or so soon thereafter as the office of the Superintendent may be open, furnish to the Superintendent a true accurate and complete statement of all dutiable liquors exported thereon which have been entered on the ship's manifest or for the receipt of which for export the owners charterers agents or master or any person acting on their or his behalf have issued a receipt to any person.
(3) If no dutiable liquors have been importel or exported, as the case may be, on any particular ship, the owners charterers agents and master of such ship shall within the respective times aforesaid furnish to the Superintendent a statement to the effect that no dutiable liquor was so imported or ex- ported, as the case may be.
53.-(1.) Every import or export state- ment furnished in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance shall be signed by the party furnishing it and shall contain such particulars as may be appointed by the Governor in Council and in default of such appointment shall be in the respective forms in the Third Schedule hereto.
(2.) Every import or export statement furnished in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance shall be on a separate form which shall contain no reference to any commodity except dutiable liquors, and no statement which is furnished for the purpose of compliance with the provisions of any other Ordinance shall be accepted as a com- pliance with the provisions of this Ordinance.
8. The following forms are added to the Third Schedule of the Liquors Consolidation Ordinance, 1911---
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