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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 18, 1931.
Prohibition
of taking pledge for liquor.
Measures or weights for sale of liquor.
Power to search suspected premises.
Drinking in unlicensed place.
Prohibition of payment of journey- men, etc., at place where liquor is sold.
Production
of licence and police powers of access.
Issue of dealer's licences, First Schedule.
Form No. 7.
Second Schedule.
Making of regulations and condi- tions.
keeping an account with a lodger in which any charge for liquors may be included, and recovering the amount thereof in any court.
General.
24. No person licensed under this Ordinance shall take or receive in payment or pledge for liquor or any entertainment whatever supplied in or out of his house any article or thing whatever, except. mçney.
25. Every person licensed under this Ordinance shall sell and dispose of his liquors by the measures or weights legalized in the Colony and not otherwise, except when the quantity is less than half a pint, or except when the liquor is sold in bottles; he shall also measure or weigh such liquors in the presence of any customer who may require him to do so.
26. If any person is convicted of unlawfully retail- ing any intoxicating liquor, the house and premises of such person and the house, lodging, shop, or ware- house where such offence has been committed, and any court or yard connected therewith, shall be liable to be searched, at any time of the day or night, by any police officer, with or without a warrant, for six months next after such conviction, provided that the same or any part thereof is then occupied by the person so convicted.
27. Whenever any police officer finds any person drinking in any place in which any intoxicating liquor is sold or disposed of by retail, and the licence for such sale is not, on demand, produced to such police officer, it shall be lawful for him to apprehend all such persons so found drinking therein; and every such person so found drinking shall, if such place is in fact unlicensed, be liable upon summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding twenty dollars, unless such person informs against such unlicensed person or voluntarily becomes a witness against him, in respect of such act of selling and retailing.
28. No master or other person employing journey- men, workmen, servants, or labourers, and not being the licensed keeper of a house in which any in- toxicating liquor is sold or disposed of by retail, shall pay or cause any payment to be made to any such journeyman, workman, servant or labourer in or at any such house.
29.-(1) Every person licensed under this Ordin- ance shall produce his licence to any police or revenue officer, on being required to do so.
(2) Any European officer of police shall have free access to every part of any house licensed under sec- tions 16 or 33 at any hour of the night or day.
Dealers' licences,
30.-(1) Every person desirous of obtaining a dea- ler's licence to sell intoxicating liquors shall apply to the Superintendent, who may, in his discretion, grant to the applicant a licence in Form No. 7 in the First Schedule, upon payment of the appropriate fee specified in the Second Schedule.
(2) Such licence may be renewed annually on like conditions.
31.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations and conditions for the granting of a dealer's licence.
(2) Such regulations or conditions may require the providing by applicants of one or more sureties, and may regulate the times of commencement and expiry of such licences, the hours and conditions of sale, and all other matters connected with such licences.
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