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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 17, 1931.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

Hong Kong.

No. 225

Regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 3 of the Licensing Ordi- nance, 1887, Ordinance No. S of 1887, on the 7th day of April, 1931.

The conditions of hawkers itinerant licence and the conditions of hawkers stall- holders licence set forth in the Second Schedule to the regulations relating to hawkers, published on pages 119 to 133 of the Regulations of Hong Kong, 1844-1925, and subse- quently amended, are hereby rescinded and the following conditions are substituted therefor:-

Conditions of hawkers itinerant licence.

1. The licence is not transferable and shall not be lent or hired to any person.

2. No person shall alter, deface, or make any erasure on a licence, and no person shall use, or have in his possession with a view to use, a licence on which an erasure has been made, or which has been altered or defaced in any way.

3. The licensee is subject to all enactments in force for the time being relating to itinerant hawkers. It is within the discretion of the Inspector General of Police to cancel the licence of any licensec who has been convicted of any

offence.

4. Every licensee shall produce two copies of his photograph, one to be deposited at the Police Licensing Office and the other to be affixed to his licence.

5. When hawking the licensee shall be in possession of the licence and licence board supplied to him in respect of the current period of the licence, and shall exhibit the said board in a conspicuous position and in a manner rendering the number thereon clearly legible. The licensee shall produce his licence to any police officer on demand.

METHOD OF HAWKING,

6. Wares must be hawked and not deposited on the road so as to cause obstruction.

7. The licensee shall sweep up and remove any refuse caused by his trade and shall not throw the same down any public sewer or into any side-channel, gully, or pipe hole, and shall keep his stall in a clean and sanitary condition.

8. Hawkers are not permitted to use or utter cries, or to make other noises for the purpose of selling their wares or attracting attention to their trade within the following roads, streets and areas :--

(1) City of Victoria :-

(a) In Bonhain Road, Caine Road, Upper Albert Road and Kennedy Road,

and the areas to the south thereof.

(3) Within an area bounded on the north by the Harbour, on the south by Upper Albert Road and Caine Road, on the west by Old Bailey Street, Cochrane Street and Jubilee Street to the Harbour, and on the east by Murray Road and Garden Road to Kennedy Road.

(e) Within the area.-Wanchai Road from Queen's Road East to Tin Lok Lane, Tin Lok Lane to Morrison Hill Road, Morrison Hill Road to Leighton Hill Road, Leighton Hill Road and Caroline Road to the Polo Ground, across the Polo Ground in front of Moreton Terrace, through the Sookunpo Recreation Ground to Caroline Hill Road, Caroline Hill Road to Leighton Hill Road, Wong Nei Chung Road and Morrison Gap