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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH JUNE, 1886.
connected therewith, shall be liable to be searched at any time of the day or night,. by any Police Officer, with or without warrant, for six months next after such conviction, provided that the same or any part thereof shall be occupied by the person, so convicted.
26. Whenever any Police Officer shall find any person drinking in any place in which any intoxicating liquor shall be sold or disposed of by retail, and the licence for such sale shall not on demand be produced to such Police Officer, it shall be lawful for such Police Officer to apprehend all such persous so found drinking there; and every such person so found drinking shall, upon conviction before any Magistrate, forfeit and pay for every such offence à sum not exceeding twenty dollars, unless such person shall inform against such unlicensed person or voluntarily become a witness against him, in respect of such act of selling and retailing.
27. No master or other person employing journeymen, workmen, servants, or labourers, shall pay or cause any payment to be made to any such journeyman, workman, or labourer in or at any house in which any intoxicating liquor is sold by retail.
Wholesale and Grocers' Licences. Spirit Shops. 28. Every person desirous of obtaining a wholesale or a Grocer's licence to sell intoxicating liquors shall apply to the Colonial Secretary, who may in his discretion grant to the applicant a licence in the form of Schedule Ž or M according to the nature of his application, on production of a receipt from the Treasurer for a fee of One hundred and twenty dollars. Such licence may be renewed annually on like conditions.
29. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to make, alter, amend and repeal regulations and conditious for the granting of Wholesale and Grocer's licences. Such conditions may require the providing by applicants of one or more sureties, may alter the above scale of fees, 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. All such regulations when published in the Government Gazette shall have the force of law.
30. The Colonial Secretary may grant a licence in the form of Schedule N to any person to retail Chinese spirits, such Chinese spirits not to be consumed on the premises where they are sold, and the holder of such liceuce shall exhibit conspicuously and permanently in front of his licensed place of business his name and number and the nature of such licence, ou a sign, the size and design of which shall be approved by the Colonial Secretary, and the fou of tex dollars monthly shall be paid in advance by each licensee to the Treasurer. The Colonial Secretary may permit the transfer of any such licence in form of Schedule ().
Eating Houses.
31. No person, unless licensed to retail intoxicating liquors or Chinese spirits under this Ordinance, shall keep an eating house, coffee house, refreshment bar or saloon, restaurant, or other place where meals or refreshments are supplied to persons not resident on the premises, without & licence from the Colonial Secretary, for which licence a fee of Ten dollars a year shall be payable in advance. Such conditions as the Governor in Council may determine may be added to any licenco granted under this section.
32. No person licensed under the preceding Section shall knowingly or wilfully permit drunkenness or other disorder- ly conduct in his house or other place of entertainment, or knowingly suffer any unlawful games or gaming therein, or knowingly permit or suffer any public prostitute to frequent such house or other place or to remain therein.
Police Inspection. Search.
33. When information upon oath shall be laid before any Magistrate to the effect that any illicit distillation or rectification or illegal sale of intoxicating liquors is carried on within any building or on board of any vessel in the Colony, it shall be lawful for such Magistrate by a warrant ander his hand to empower any Officer of Police to enter such building or vessel at any hour of the night or day, using force for that purpose if necessary, and to make search for any stills, parts of stills, or intoxicating liquors which may be found there, and to arrest any persons who nay appear to have committed or to be attempting to commit any offence against this Ordinance.
Drinking in unlicensed place.
(11 of 44. 86,)
Payment of workmen.
(11 of 44. 37.)
Wholesale and Grocers' Licences. How obtained.
Power to make rules
China
Shops.
Spirit
(11 of 44. 27-30.)
Eating Houses.
Disorder in eating house1. (2 & 3 Vic. c. 47, n. 44.)
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