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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 13, 1919.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 259.

Regulations made by the Officer Administering the Government in Council under section 7 of the Non-Ferrous Metal Industry Ordinance, 1919, Ordinance No. 1 of 1919, on the 12th day of June, 1919.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Non-Ferrous Metal Industry Regulations, 1919.

2. There shall be excluded from dealings by way of wholesale trade within the meaning of the Ordinance, dealings in quantities below the following limits:

Ores.

Zinc (Spelter)

Copper...

Tin

Lead

Nickel

Aluminium

.25 tons .10 tons

10 tons

.10 tons

.20 tons

5 tons

5 tons ]

During any one quarter of the year ending 31st March, 30th June, 30th September, and 31st December.

in the raw materials of usual commercial shapes or the equivalent, thereto in forms of ores or concentrated material.

3. For the purposes of the Ordinance the expression "metal" shall include metal in any form whatsoever as it leaves the furnace or refinery being unwrought, also scrap and swarf of all sorts for re-melting.

4. The fee to be paid for the grant of a licence under the Ordinance, shall be $10 which shall be sent to the Colonial Secretary on application being made for a licence and shall be returned to the applicant if the licence is refused.

5.--(1) An application for a licence under the Ordinance shall be made to the Governor in Council in writing and shall be accompanied by Form 1 in the Schedule hereto which shall contain the information specified therein.

(2) The application shall be signed by the individual or a partner in the firm or a director of the corporation making the application. The Governor in Council may call for such further and other information as he may require.

6.-(1) The Governor in Council shall not refuse to grant a licence to a corporation, firm, or individual to which any of the conditions set forth in the First Schedule of the Ordinance apply or which is controlled by a corporation, firm, or individual in respect of which any such conditions apply, nor shall he revoke or suspend a licence without giving notice in writing to the applicant or holder of a licence, as the case may be, that he may within 21 days apply to the Governor in Council to be heard in support of his applica- tion for a licence, or to show cause why his licence should not be revoked or suspended.

(2) Any person to whom such notice is given and who desires to be so heard shall within 14 days from the date of the notice send to the Governor in Council a notice of application for a hearing on Form 2A or 2B of the Schedule hereto.

(3) Such application shall be accompanied by a statement of the grounds upon which the applicant claims that a licence should be granted to him, or that his licence should not be revoked or suspended.

(4) Such statement shall be signed by the individual or a partner in the firm or a director of the corporation making the application.

(5) The Governor in Council may in any particular case require such statement to be verified by a statutory declaration.

(6) The Governor in Council may call for such further particulars of the grounds given in such application and for such documents as he may require, and may postpone the hearing of such application till such particulars or documents are furnished.

(7) The Governor in Council may hear the application in such manner as he shall deem expedient, and by such persons as he shall appoint for the purpose.