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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH MARCH, 1887.
Building s in markets.
Letting of murket buildinga
Sub-letting prohibited.
Alterations to buildings.
Repairs to buildings by Lessee.
Sales outside markets prohibited.
Exceptions to
the prohibi- tion of sales outside
markets.
17. No buildings shall be erected or maintained in any market except stalls, quarters for market officers, police and porters. Such buildings shall be of stone or brick and the stalls shall be fitted with stone or wooden counters. No person shall be allowed to tenant any house in any market unless with the written sanction of the Registrar General. 18. All market buildings shall be let by the Registrar General in such manner and on such conditions as shall from time to time be approved by the Governor in Council. Until such conditions and manner of letting shall be so. established or varied they shall be as follows:-
(1.) All market buildings shall be let without fine or premium, either from month to month, or for a term of years, for the highest rent obtainable, such rent to be ascertained by sealed tenders. In case of equal tenders the tenant in posses- sion, if any, shall have the preference. (2.) If the letting is from month to month, a month's notice of its discontinuance shall be given either by the Registrar General or the lessee as the case may be.
(3.) If the letting is for a year or more, no notice of
the expiration of the term shall be necessary. (4.) No market building shall be let for more than three years except on a higher rent than can be obtained for three years' lease, nor for any term exceeding five years' lease without the approval of the Governor.
(5.) All rents of market buildings shall be paid to the Registrar General in advance within the first seven days of each month.
(6.) The Governor may order the forfeiture of any lease to occupy a market building if it shall be proved to his satisfaction that the licensee has used such market building for any other purposes than those pertaining to the business of a market. 19. No lessee of any market building shall sublet or assign the same or any part thereof without the written permission of the Registrar General, nor shall transfer his lease to any other person. Nevertheless the business of any lessee may be carried on, in case of his death or absence, by his executors, administrators, or agents until the expiration of his lease.
20. No alteration in or addition to any market building shall be made or commenced by any lessee thereof without the sanction of the Surveyor General in writing.
21. Whenever the lessee of any market building shall fail to comply with any condition of his holding or grant as to the execution of any repairs to such market building, or other works in connection with the same, the Surveyor General may summon such lessee before a Police Magis- trate, who may summarily order him to execute such repairs or other works within a reasonable time to be specified in such order. Any failure to carry out the terms of such order shall be deemed an offence against this Ordinance.
22. Except as by this Ordinance provided, no person shall within the City or Harbour of Victoria or in such villages as shall be named in any Bye-law to be made for the purpose by the Governor in Council sell or expose for sale in any place not being a public market within the meaning of this Ordinance any articles of food for man usually sold or exposed for sale in a public market; always provided that the Governor in Council may from time to time grant licences for the sale of articles of food for man elsewhere than in a public market, to such persons, for such considerations, and for such periods as he shall think fit.
23. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be so construed as to forbid any of the following sales of food:-
(1.) Of rice, bread, milk, salt-fish, or confectionery.
soup, or other prepared food by licensed haw- kers.
(3.) Of fish, by licensed boatmen at a distance of at
least one hundred yards from shore.
(4.) Of cooked provisions to customers by any licensed victualler or keeper of a boarding house or refreshment room.
(5.) Of any food commonly sold by chandlers and purveyors not being raw butchers' meat.
(6.) Public sales by licensed Auctioneers.
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