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2162 ORDINANCE No. 21 OF 1887 .


Licensing Consolidation.


No. 21 of 1887.

An Ordinance to consolidate the law relating to various Licences.

[ 16th July, 1887. ]
Title. E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the
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Legislative Council thereof, as follows :

Short title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Licensing
Consolidation Ordinance, 1887.

Definition, 2. In the construction of this Ordinance the term public vehicle shall
mean any chair, carriage, jinricksha, or other vehicle of any kind which
plies for hire in the streets for the carriage of passengers , and the word
licence shall mean a licence required by this Ordinance.

Governor in 3. The Governor in Council may from time to time make, and when
Council may
make regula made may alter, add to, or repeal regulations under this Ordinance ;
tions.

( 1. ) For the issue of licences , the forms thereof, the fees to be
paid on such licences, their periods, conditions, and the
officers who are to issue them.

( 2. ) For the regulation of public vehicles and of traffic carried
on by means of such vehicles .

Existing 4. All regulations published under any Ordinance repealed by this
regulations
continued. Ordinance are hereby continued in force until they shall be replaced by
new regulations made under this Ordinance.

Existing 5. All licences issued under any Ordinance repealed by this Ordi
licences
continued. nance shall continue in force till they shall expire , or be forfeited or
revoked .

Licences. 6. A licence shall be required for every

[5 of45. 7.] (1. ) Auctioneer .

[5 of 45. 7.] ( 2. ) Billiard table , skittle-ground , nine-pin or bowling- alley
open to the public .

[8 of 58. 11.] (3. ) Hawker.

[9 of 67. 7.] (4. ) Money changer.

[5 of 83. 2. ] ( 5. ) Public vehicle, and also for every bearer, drawer or driver
of a public vehicle.

[ 8 of 58. 13.] (6. ) Undertaker of Chinese funerals .