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A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Liquors Consoli-

dation Ordinance, 1911.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Liquors Ordi- Short title uance, 1920, and shall be read and construed as one and construc- with the Liquors Consolidation Ordinance, 1911, and the tion. Liquors Consolidation Ordinance, 1911, the Liquors Ordinances Ordinance, 1917, and this Ordinance may be cited 1911 and 24 together as the Liquors Ordinances, 1911 to 1920.

2. Section 9 of the Liquors Consolidation Ordinance, 1911, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor

Licensing

Board.

9.—(1.) All applications for the grant- ing or transfer of publicans licences. restaurant adjunct licences and hotel keepers adjunct licences shall be made to a Board of Licensing Justices, hereinafter called the Board.

(2.) The Board shall consist of a chair- man, vice-chairman and five other members. The members shall hold office for three years. The Magis- trates' Clerk shall be ex-officio secretary to the Board.

(3.) The chairman, vice-chairman and two other members shall be ap- pointed by the Governor, and of the four members appointed by the Governor under this sub-section two shall be official and two un- official Justices of the Peace.

(4.) Three of the members of the Board shall be elected by the unofficial Justices of the Peace from among their number, provided that if no nomination is received, or if nomi- nations are not received for all the vacancies announced, it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint a Justice or Justices to fill the vacancy or vacancies.

(5.) If any Licensing Justice who was appointed by the Governor under sub-section (3) of this section is absent from the Colony it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint another Justice to act as a member of the Board during the absence of the substantive member. Such acting member shall be an official or an unofficial Justice according as the substantive member is an official or an unofficial Justice. (6.) If any Licensing Justice who was elected or appointed under sub- section (4) of this section is absent from the Colony it shall be lawful for the unofficial Justices of the Peace to elect from among their number a Justice to act as a member of the

Nos, 9 of

of 1917.

Repeal of Ordinance ?

of 1911, s. 9, and substitu- tion of new

section.