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Public Health (Food).

(2) If any licence is issued on or after 1st October in any year, half fee shall be paid.

(3) Every licence shall expire on 31st March annually.

4. (1) No person shall within the Hill District that is to say any part of the Island of Hong Kong above the 700-feet contour-

(a) keep any shop for the sale of any article of food;

or

(b) expose or offer with a view to sale any article of food; or

(c) warehouse or store any article of food intended for sale; or

(d) knowingly permit any premises, owned or occupied by him, or otherwise under his management or control, to be used as a shop for the sale of any article of food or for the purpose of warehousing or storing any article of food intended for sale; or (e) have in his possession or control any article of food with a view to the sale thereof or knowing that the same is intended for sale,

except with a licence from the Council and in accordance with the terms of such licence.

(2) It shall be lawful for the Council to prescribe in the case of any such licence any conditions which may to the Council seem desirable.

(3) This by-law shall not apply to the following-

(a) the sale of food by the keepers of hotels and boarding houses to guests and visitors;

(b) the sale of green vegetables, fruit, confectionery, bean curd, congee, soup or other prepared food by licensed hawkers;

(c) public sales by licensed auctioneers: Provided that in any sale of intoxicating liquor the provisions of [CAP. 140] the Dutiable Commodities Ordinance are complied (Cap. 109). with;

(d) the sale of eggs.

(4) In this by-law "shop" includes every place where any article is sold ordinarily from time to time.

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