MARKETS BY-LAWS
Title
MARKETS BY-LAWS
Description
MARKETS BY-LAWS
(Cap. 140, section 5).
(Ordinance No. 13 of 1935).
[5th March, 1948.]
1. The following are public markets-
Aberdeen Market.
Bowrington Market.
Central Market.
Fa Yuen Market.
Government Wholesale Vegetable Market,
Yaumati.
Kennedy Town Wholesale Market.
Kun Chung Market.
Lockhart Road Market.
Mong Kok Tsui Market.
Quarry Bay Market.
Reclamation Street Market.
Sai Wan Ho Market.
Sai Ying Pun Market.
Sham Shui Po Market.
Shaukiwan Market.
Shek Tong Tsui Market.
So Kon Po Market.
Stanley Market.
Tai Hang Market.
Temporary Kowloon City Market at Nga Tsin
Wai Road.
Temporary Market, Cha Kwo Ling.
To Kwa Wan Market.
Tong Mei Market.
Tsim Sha Tsui Market.
Wanchai Market.
Western Market, North Block.
Western Market, South Block.
Whitfield Market.
Wholesale Fish Market at Marine Lot, No. 87,
Tung Kun Street, Yaumati.
Wongneichung Market.
Yaumati Market.
2. No market shall be established or closed excel)t
by the Council.
3. Every market shall be subject to these by-laws.
4. The Council shall fix the hours during which a
market shall be open to the public, and a notice statin..
such hours shall be posted in a conspicuous position at
such market. At least one nionth's previous notice in
writing shall be given to lessees of stalls of any alteration
in such hours.
5. Market stalls shall be class - ified and set apart by,
the Council for the sale respectively of rneat, game, Poultry'
fish, fruit, vegetables and such other commodities as the
Council may define in writing.
6. All market stalls shall be numbered by the Council.
7. A register of all market stalls shall be kept by the
Secretary of the Council as in Form A in the Schedule.
Every entry in such register shall be prinia facte evidence
of the facts therein appearing. The person or persons
whose name or names is or are entered in such register
as the lessee is or are hereinafter referred as the 'lessee'.
8. In these by-laws 'lessee' shall include, where
the con.text so requires, any person in charge of a stall
or appearing to be in charge thereof.
9. (1) All stails shall be let by the Council without
.fine or premium, from monfli to month, at a rent to be
ascertained by sealed tender; but the Council shall not be,
bound to accept the highest or any tender. No person
under the age of 18 years shall be eligible to tender or
be accepted as a iessee or joint lessee of a stall.
(2) If a market is closed by the Council, the Council
may in its discretion reserve and allot to lessees of the
closed market stalls in any other market.
(3) The Council may, if satisfied that such a course
is equitable to the persons concerned, include the names
of several persons riot exceeding four in number as oint
lessees of a stall.
(4) Stalls shall be used for the retail sale (unless other-
wise decided by the Council) of specified cornmodities.
10. (r) In this by-law-
'marine fish' has the meaning assigned thereto in the
A/larketing (Marine Fish) Order, 1950;
'wholesale fish market' has the meaning assigned thereto
in the Marketing (Marine Fish) Order, 1950.
(2) If the specified commodity (referred to in paragraph
(4) of by-law 9) includes marine fish, then the following
conditions shall apply in respect of the tenure of that
stall-
(a)the lessee shall forthwith submit to the Director
of 1Marketing for his approval the name of an
agent to be responsible on behalf of the lessee for
the purchase of marine fish at the wholesale fish
market ;
(b)the lessee shall not sell at his stall any marine fish
except marine fish purchased at. the wholesale fish
market by an agent approved by the Director of
ikl,trlzeliiig : Provided that this condition shall not
be construed to prevent the lessee himself from
purchasing inarine fish at the wholesale fish market
for sale at his own stall ;
(c)the lessee sliall exhibit on his signboard the words
in English ---MarineFish Sold' ;
(d)the lessee shall during normal business hours
maintain stocks of marine fish adequate to the
needs of regular daily customers;
(c) the lessee shall exhibit in Chinese characters the
retail price per catty by means of tags attached to
such marine fish or to portions thereof intended
for sale. In respect of live fish sold direct from
a tank or tx ' ib no indication of the price is required;
if so required by the Council, the lessee shall also
exhibit such retail prices in English ;
(g)every price tag shall be of a design approved by
the Council.
(3) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained
in these by-laws, if in the opinion of the Council a lessee
fails without reasonable cause to comply with any of the
said conditions, the Council may forthwith terminate his
lease without refund of rent or other compensation.
11. (T) Stall rents shall be paid to the Council quar-
terly in advance within the first two weeks of the quarter.
(2) If a tenancy comn-iences on a date which is not
the beginning of a quarter, any period of half a month
or more shall be charged as one month and any period
less than half a month shall not be charged.
(3) If a tenancy is determined by notice in accorclance
with by-law 1,5, expiring before the end of the quarter for
which the rent has been paid in advance, the lessee shall
be entitled to a refund of the rent for one month ol- two
months as the case may be.
12. The Council reserves the right to review and vary
the rent of any stall from time to time, on giving the lessee
one month's previous notice in writing.
13. The Council shall on the death or retirement from
old age or other cause of a lessee or joint lessee cause
his name and photograph to be deleted from the register
and, except for his wife or widow as the case may be or
his son or a dependant of near kinship, shall substitute no
other name for that of the said lessee or joint lessee.
14. If in the opinion of the Council a lessee contravenes
or suffers or permits the contravention ~-)f any by-law ol-
fails to observe and perform any of the agreements on his
part contained in his lease, the Council may forthwith and
without any refund of rent or other compensation determine
his tenancy ).lid re-enter the stall or stalls.
15. Subject to these by-laws one month's notice to
determine -lily tenancy shall be given By either the Council
ol- the lessee as the case may be.
16. Every lessee shall place a signboard in front of
his stall showing in full, both in English and in Chinese,
the name or names of the lessee or lessees, and his or their
photograph or photographs shall be affixed thereto. All
photographs shall be renewed from time to tirne as the
Council may direct.
17. Every lessee, who intends to absent himself from
the Colony for a period exceeding one month, shall first
notify the Secretary of the Council and report to him the
name of the agent responsible for his stall during his
absence.
18. If in the opinion of the Council any stall remains
deserted, unoccupied or inadequately occupied by a lessee
for a period of ()ne month or if it appear to the Council
that no business has been conducted at a stall by a lessee
for a period of one rnonth, the Council shall be entitled
to determine the tenancy forthwitli and notice of such
determination shall be posted on the stall.
19. The lessee shall duly and punctually pay, and dis-
cliarge all rates, taxes and other assessments and any meter
rent or charges for electricity or water consumption in
respect of the stall.
20. Lessees,who require additional lights in their stalls
sliall use only electric lamps or smokeless oil lamps of a
pattern approved by the Council.
21. No lessee sliall use his stall for any other purpose
tliall that for which it is let.
22. Every lessee shall take all reasonable measures to
secure the observance of all by-laws. He shall employ a
sufficient number of persons to wash and keep the stall
clean to the satisfaction of the Council and shall be respon-
sible for all damage to or loss of any property.
23. No lessee shall sub-let or assign his stall or any
part thereof without the written permission of the Council
nor sliall lie. ti-ansfer his lease to any other person. Never-
theless the business of any lessee may be carried on in the
case of flis death or absence, with the consent in writing
of the Council, by his executors, administrators or agents
until. the Council determines such lease.
24. Except as provided by these by-laws no person
shall demand.or receive any money or other valuable con-
sideration as a fee, fine, toll, rent or otherwise for access
or admission to, or for selling or buying in, any market.
25. No person shall make use of any avenue or
thoroughfare of any market for the conveyance of merchan-
dise not intended for sale or exposure for sale in such
market.
26. No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale,
any article in any part of a market except in that part
appropriated by the Council for the sale of such article.
27. No signboard or blind on any stall shall obstruct
any thoroughfare in such ii-larket, and no lessee shall place
or store any goods outside his market stall or allow them
to project beyond it.
28. No person shall erect any structure in a market
nor in any other way whatsoever cause any kind of obstruc-
tion in a market.
29. No person shall hawk or cry any article whatever
for sale in any market.
30. No person shall beg, apply for alms or expose or
exhibit any sores, wounds or bodily ailments or deforinity,
in any market, nor shall any person so afflicted or any leper
engage or assist in any business therein.
31. (1) Every person engaged or employed in any
capacity in any market shall submit himself for such
medical examination and at such time and place as may
be designated by a health officer.
(2) If, after medical examination, it is the opinion of
a health officer that employment in a market has caused,
or is likely to catise, spread of conimunicable disease, the
person so medically examined shall be notified in writing
and he shall forthwith cease to engage himself or to illow
himself to bc employed in any iiitt-l~et until lie has been
certified by niedical certificate to be 110 longer likely to
cause spread of communicable disease.
(3) It shall be unlawful for any lessee to employ any
person who, in accordance with paragraph (2), is deemed
to have caused, or is likely to cause, spread of coinniunicable
disease.
32. No person shall commit a iiuisance in any part of
any Inarket.
33. No person shall spit in any part of any market.
34. No person shall throw any vegetable substance,
offal, garbage or offensive matter or thing on to any market
avenue or thorough fare.
35. No person expect caretakers aiid officers approved
by the Council shall sleep in any market.
36. No person shall wash or bathe in any fish tank
or other receptacle used for the storage of food.
37. Every lessee shall cause his stall and the floors in
the vicinity thereof to be properly cleansed to the satisfac-
tion of the Council.
38. At flesh meat stalls all fittings and utonsils belong-
ing [hereto shall be cleansed it least once a day.
39. No person shall cleave any carcase or part of a
carcase except tipon a cleaving block or chopping board.or
upon the hooks provided for the purpose.
40. At fish stalls all fittings and utensils belonging
thereto shall be cleansed at least twice a day.
41. At poultr * v stalls, the stall, pens and all fittings
belonghig thereto shall be cleansed at least twice a day,
and a supply of fresh drinkbig water shall be provided for
live birds kept 'In such pens.
42. No person shall cause the introduction into the
tissues of the carcase of any anirnal or bird usually used
as food for rnan, by injectio)i or any other means, of water
or any other fluid, or air or any other gas or gaseous niix-
ture or have in his possession any instrument designed or
adapted for this purpose.
43. No person shall pluck, scald or clean any poultry
or gaine except in places appropriated for the purpose.
44. Every lessee, if required by the Council, shall keep
at his stall a portable dust bin. of a design approved by
the Council.
45. Every lessee, if required by the Council, shall keep
at his stall a scale marked in English weights and if
required by a customer to do so shall weigh upon such
scale any goods sold at his stall.
46. No person shall sit, stand or lie on in ' y slib or
counter intended for the exposure of food for sale.
47. No lessee shall keep any dog in any market, nor
shall any person knowingly permit any dog to follow him
into a market.
48. On a day and hour to be appointed by the Council,
of which three days notice shall be given, lessees' shall
remove all goods and articles from their stalls or from.other
spaces allotted to thern in the rnarket in order that the market
may be thoroughly cleaned.
49. Subject to the provisions of by-law 5o, no flesh
meat (salted meat excepted) other than that which has been
slaughtered in the Government Slaughter-houses shall be
exposed for sale in any market.
50. (1) The Council may, from time to tirne, grant
permission in writing, revocable at the discretion of the
Council, to any lessee to expose for sale in his still unsalted
flesh meat which has been imported from Canada, Australia
or New Zealand or from such other localities as the Council
may approve ; such permission shall state the name of the
lessee, the class or description of ineat perinitted, and the
stall at which such. nicat is to be exposed for sale. The
Council may require that such imported nicat shall be
inspected by a food officer before being exposed for sale.
(2) The lessee to whom such permission has been
granted, shall cause a notice board to be placed at his stall,
in a conspicuous position, stating in English and Chinese
that he deals in imported meat, and stating also the place
from which such meat was imported ; the letters and charac-
ters of such notice shall be at least one and a half. inches
fong. He shall also make a. true return to the Council,
quarterly, of the quantity of meat irnported by him specify-
ing whence such rneat has been imported.
51. Any stall froin which horse flesh is sold or exposed
for sale shall display a notice ])caring the words 'HORSE
FLESh FOR SALE' in English and Chinese letters or
characters one, and a half inches long.
52. If a food officer discovers in any market any car-
case or part of a carcase of beef, mutton, goat's flesh or
pork not bearing the official mark other than meat exposed
for sale in accordance with permission granted under by-law
5o, lie shall seize it, and a veterinary officer may order it
to be destroyed and no compensation shall be payable in
respect thereof.
53. Any notice or communication to a lessee frorn the
Council or any government department shall, if posted on
his stall, be deemed to be duly served on the lessee.
54. Any lessee who is dissatisfied with any decision of
the Council may apply to the Council within 14 days from
the date of service of such decision for a review thereof. No
application for a review will be entertained after the expira-
tion of such 14 days.
55. The Council may expel from any rnarket any person
who has been convicted of contravening any by-law and may
prevent any such person from further carrying on any busi-
ness in such market or occupying any stall therein.
56. The Chairman of the Council, the Commissioner of
Police, the Director of Medical and Health Services, the
Director of Public Works, the Director of Agriculture,.
Fisheries and Forestry, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and
their respective officers as well as any food officer shall have
at all times froe access to every part of every market building.
57. Copies of these by-laws, in English and Chinese,
shall be kept posted in conspicuous positions in the markets.
58. The Council may from time to time, in respect of
any market, grant exemption from or suspend (with or
without imposing conditions) the application of all or any
of the markets by-laws or any part of any such by-laws or
by-law. Any such exemption or suspension may be
rescinded or varied at any time.
59. Any person who acts in contravention of by-laws
2, 10, 16, 17, 20, 21, 23 to 51, 56 and 57 shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars or to
imprisonment for six months, as well is to suffer any
forfeiture that may be prescribed therein.
60. These by-laws may be cited as the Markets By-laws.
SCHEDULE. [by-law 7.]
FORM A.
MARKET REGISTER,
Stall No . ............................................... Market.
Nameof
lessee & Date of For the Monthly Terms. Agree- Signa- Photo of
partners, entry, sale of. rent. of lease Seal. ment of ture of lessee.
if any.
G.N.A. 74/48. G.N.A. 280/48. G.N.A. 14/49. G.N.A. 134/50. G.N.A. 154/50. G.N.A. 181/50. G.N.A. 57/51. G.N.A. 87/51. List markets. G.N.A. 280/48. G.N.A. 134/50. G.N.A. 181/50. Establishing and closing market. By-laws. Market hours. Classification of stalls. Numbering. Register of stalls. Schedule Form A. Definition of lessee. Letting of stalls by Council. G.N.A. 154/50. Sale of marine fish by stall holders. G.N.A. 57/51. (G.N.A. 74/50). Payment of rent. Refunds of rent. Review of rental. Change of lessee. G.N.A. 154/50. Contravention of by-laws, Notice to determine tenancy. Stall sign-board. Absence of lessee. Deserted &c. stalls. Rates &c. Lamps. User of stalls. Employees. No sub-letting. Demand of monies. Use of market avenues. Place of sale. No obstruction. Structures and obstructions. No hawking &c. No begging &c. Medical examination. Nuisances. Spitting. Throwing rubbish &c. No sleeping in markets. Washing. Cleansing of stall &c. Flesh meat stalls. Chopping blocks. Fish stalls. Poultry stalls. Injecting fluid &c. into food. Prohibited. G.N.A. 14/49. Plucking poultry. Dust bins. Weights and measures. Lounging on counters, &c. Dogs prohibited. General cleaning of market. Sale of flesh meat. Imported meat. Sale of horse flesh. Seizure and destruction of meat &c. Service of notice on lessee. Review of Council's decision. Expulsion from market. Certain officers to have access at all times to markets. Copies of by-laws. Exemption from by-laws. Penalty. G.N.A. 87/51. Citation.
(Cap. 140, section 5).
(Ordinance No. 13 of 1935).
[5th March, 1948.]
1. The following are public markets-
Aberdeen Market.
Bowrington Market.
Central Market.
Fa Yuen Market.
Government Wholesale Vegetable Market,
Yaumati.
Kennedy Town Wholesale Market.
Kun Chung Market.
Lockhart Road Market.
Mong Kok Tsui Market.
Quarry Bay Market.
Reclamation Street Market.
Sai Wan Ho Market.
Sai Ying Pun Market.
Sham Shui Po Market.
Shaukiwan Market.
Shek Tong Tsui Market.
So Kon Po Market.
Stanley Market.
Tai Hang Market.
Temporary Kowloon City Market at Nga Tsin
Wai Road.
Temporary Market, Cha Kwo Ling.
To Kwa Wan Market.
Tong Mei Market.
Tsim Sha Tsui Market.
Wanchai Market.
Western Market, North Block.
Western Market, South Block.
Whitfield Market.
Wholesale Fish Market at Marine Lot, No. 87,
Tung Kun Street, Yaumati.
Wongneichung Market.
Yaumati Market.
2. No market shall be established or closed excel)t
by the Council.
3. Every market shall be subject to these by-laws.
4. The Council shall fix the hours during which a
market shall be open to the public, and a notice statin..
such hours shall be posted in a conspicuous position at
such market. At least one nionth's previous notice in
writing shall be given to lessees of stalls of any alteration
in such hours.
5. Market stalls shall be class - ified and set apart by,
the Council for the sale respectively of rneat, game, Poultry'
fish, fruit, vegetables and such other commodities as the
Council may define in writing.
6. All market stalls shall be numbered by the Council.
7. A register of all market stalls shall be kept by the
Secretary of the Council as in Form A in the Schedule.
Every entry in such register shall be prinia facte evidence
of the facts therein appearing. The person or persons
whose name or names is or are entered in such register
as the lessee is or are hereinafter referred as the 'lessee'.
8. In these by-laws 'lessee' shall include, where
the con.text so requires, any person in charge of a stall
or appearing to be in charge thereof.
9. (1) All stails shall be let by the Council without
.fine or premium, from monfli to month, at a rent to be
ascertained by sealed tender; but the Council shall not be,
bound to accept the highest or any tender. No person
under the age of 18 years shall be eligible to tender or
be accepted as a iessee or joint lessee of a stall.
(2) If a market is closed by the Council, the Council
may in its discretion reserve and allot to lessees of the
closed market stalls in any other market.
(3) The Council may, if satisfied that such a course
is equitable to the persons concerned, include the names
of several persons riot exceeding four in number as oint
lessees of a stall.
(4) Stalls shall be used for the retail sale (unless other-
wise decided by the Council) of specified cornmodities.
10. (r) In this by-law-
'marine fish' has the meaning assigned thereto in the
A/larketing (Marine Fish) Order, 1950;
'wholesale fish market' has the meaning assigned thereto
in the Marketing (Marine Fish) Order, 1950.
(2) If the specified commodity (referred to in paragraph
(4) of by-law 9) includes marine fish, then the following
conditions shall apply in respect of the tenure of that
stall-
(a)the lessee shall forthwith submit to the Director
of 1Marketing for his approval the name of an
agent to be responsible on behalf of the lessee for
the purchase of marine fish at the wholesale fish
market ;
(b)the lessee shall not sell at his stall any marine fish
except marine fish purchased at. the wholesale fish
market by an agent approved by the Director of
ikl,trlzeliiig : Provided that this condition shall not
be construed to prevent the lessee himself from
purchasing inarine fish at the wholesale fish market
for sale at his own stall ;
(c)the lessee sliall exhibit on his signboard the words
in English ---MarineFish Sold' ;
(d)the lessee shall during normal business hours
maintain stocks of marine fish adequate to the
needs of regular daily customers;
(c) the lessee shall exhibit in Chinese characters the
retail price per catty by means of tags attached to
such marine fish or to portions thereof intended
for sale. In respect of live fish sold direct from
a tank or tx ' ib no indication of the price is required;
if so required by the Council, the lessee shall also
exhibit such retail prices in English ;
(g)every price tag shall be of a design approved by
the Council.
(3) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained
in these by-laws, if in the opinion of the Council a lessee
fails without reasonable cause to comply with any of the
said conditions, the Council may forthwith terminate his
lease without refund of rent or other compensation.
11. (T) Stall rents shall be paid to the Council quar-
terly in advance within the first two weeks of the quarter.
(2) If a tenancy comn-iences on a date which is not
the beginning of a quarter, any period of half a month
or more shall be charged as one month and any period
less than half a month shall not be charged.
(3) If a tenancy is determined by notice in accorclance
with by-law 1,5, expiring before the end of the quarter for
which the rent has been paid in advance, the lessee shall
be entitled to a refund of the rent for one month ol- two
months as the case may be.
12. The Council reserves the right to review and vary
the rent of any stall from time to time, on giving the lessee
one month's previous notice in writing.
13. The Council shall on the death or retirement from
old age or other cause of a lessee or joint lessee cause
his name and photograph to be deleted from the register
and, except for his wife or widow as the case may be or
his son or a dependant of near kinship, shall substitute no
other name for that of the said lessee or joint lessee.
14. If in the opinion of the Council a lessee contravenes
or suffers or permits the contravention ~-)f any by-law ol-
fails to observe and perform any of the agreements on his
part contained in his lease, the Council may forthwith and
without any refund of rent or other compensation determine
his tenancy ).lid re-enter the stall or stalls.
15. Subject to these by-laws one month's notice to
determine -lily tenancy shall be given By either the Council
ol- the lessee as the case may be.
16. Every lessee shall place a signboard in front of
his stall showing in full, both in English and in Chinese,
the name or names of the lessee or lessees, and his or their
photograph or photographs shall be affixed thereto. All
photographs shall be renewed from time to tirne as the
Council may direct.
17. Every lessee, who intends to absent himself from
the Colony for a period exceeding one month, shall first
notify the Secretary of the Council and report to him the
name of the agent responsible for his stall during his
absence.
18. If in the opinion of the Council any stall remains
deserted, unoccupied or inadequately occupied by a lessee
for a period of ()ne month or if it appear to the Council
that no business has been conducted at a stall by a lessee
for a period of one rnonth, the Council shall be entitled
to determine the tenancy forthwitli and notice of such
determination shall be posted on the stall.
19. The lessee shall duly and punctually pay, and dis-
cliarge all rates, taxes and other assessments and any meter
rent or charges for electricity or water consumption in
respect of the stall.
20. Lessees,who require additional lights in their stalls
sliall use only electric lamps or smokeless oil lamps of a
pattern approved by the Council.
21. No lessee sliall use his stall for any other purpose
tliall that for which it is let.
22. Every lessee shall take all reasonable measures to
secure the observance of all by-laws. He shall employ a
sufficient number of persons to wash and keep the stall
clean to the satisfaction of the Council and shall be respon-
sible for all damage to or loss of any property.
23. No lessee shall sub-let or assign his stall or any
part thereof without the written permission of the Council
nor sliall lie. ti-ansfer his lease to any other person. Never-
theless the business of any lessee may be carried on in the
case of flis death or absence, with the consent in writing
of the Council, by his executors, administrators or agents
until. the Council determines such lease.
24. Except as provided by these by-laws no person
shall demand.or receive any money or other valuable con-
sideration as a fee, fine, toll, rent or otherwise for access
or admission to, or for selling or buying in, any market.
25. No person shall make use of any avenue or
thoroughfare of any market for the conveyance of merchan-
dise not intended for sale or exposure for sale in such
market.
26. No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale,
any article in any part of a market except in that part
appropriated by the Council for the sale of such article.
27. No signboard or blind on any stall shall obstruct
any thoroughfare in such ii-larket, and no lessee shall place
or store any goods outside his market stall or allow them
to project beyond it.
28. No person shall erect any structure in a market
nor in any other way whatsoever cause any kind of obstruc-
tion in a market.
29. No person shall hawk or cry any article whatever
for sale in any market.
30. No person shall beg, apply for alms or expose or
exhibit any sores, wounds or bodily ailments or deforinity,
in any market, nor shall any person so afflicted or any leper
engage or assist in any business therein.
31. (1) Every person engaged or employed in any
capacity in any market shall submit himself for such
medical examination and at such time and place as may
be designated by a health officer.
(2) If, after medical examination, it is the opinion of
a health officer that employment in a market has caused,
or is likely to catise, spread of conimunicable disease, the
person so medically examined shall be notified in writing
and he shall forthwith cease to engage himself or to illow
himself to bc employed in any iiitt-l~et until lie has been
certified by niedical certificate to be 110 longer likely to
cause spread of communicable disease.
(3) It shall be unlawful for any lessee to employ any
person who, in accordance with paragraph (2), is deemed
to have caused, or is likely to cause, spread of coinniunicable
disease.
32. No person shall commit a iiuisance in any part of
any Inarket.
33. No person shall spit in any part of any market.
34. No person shall throw any vegetable substance,
offal, garbage or offensive matter or thing on to any market
avenue or thorough fare.
35. No person expect caretakers aiid officers approved
by the Council shall sleep in any market.
36. No person shall wash or bathe in any fish tank
or other receptacle used for the storage of food.
37. Every lessee shall cause his stall and the floors in
the vicinity thereof to be properly cleansed to the satisfac-
tion of the Council.
38. At flesh meat stalls all fittings and utonsils belong-
ing [hereto shall be cleansed it least once a day.
39. No person shall cleave any carcase or part of a
carcase except tipon a cleaving block or chopping board.or
upon the hooks provided for the purpose.
40. At fish stalls all fittings and utensils belonging
thereto shall be cleansed at least twice a day.
41. At poultr * v stalls, the stall, pens and all fittings
belonghig thereto shall be cleansed at least twice a day,
and a supply of fresh drinkbig water shall be provided for
live birds kept 'In such pens.
42. No person shall cause the introduction into the
tissues of the carcase of any anirnal or bird usually used
as food for rnan, by injectio)i or any other means, of water
or any other fluid, or air or any other gas or gaseous niix-
ture or have in his possession any instrument designed or
adapted for this purpose.
43. No person shall pluck, scald or clean any poultry
or gaine except in places appropriated for the purpose.
44. Every lessee, if required by the Council, shall keep
at his stall a portable dust bin. of a design approved by
the Council.
45. Every lessee, if required by the Council, shall keep
at his stall a scale marked in English weights and if
required by a customer to do so shall weigh upon such
scale any goods sold at his stall.
46. No person shall sit, stand or lie on in ' y slib or
counter intended for the exposure of food for sale.
47. No lessee shall keep any dog in any market, nor
shall any person knowingly permit any dog to follow him
into a market.
48. On a day and hour to be appointed by the Council,
of which three days notice shall be given, lessees' shall
remove all goods and articles from their stalls or from.other
spaces allotted to thern in the rnarket in order that the market
may be thoroughly cleaned.
49. Subject to the provisions of by-law 5o, no flesh
meat (salted meat excepted) other than that which has been
slaughtered in the Government Slaughter-houses shall be
exposed for sale in any market.
50. (1) The Council may, from time to tirne, grant
permission in writing, revocable at the discretion of the
Council, to any lessee to expose for sale in his still unsalted
flesh meat which has been imported from Canada, Australia
or New Zealand or from such other localities as the Council
may approve ; such permission shall state the name of the
lessee, the class or description of ineat perinitted, and the
stall at which such. nicat is to be exposed for sale. The
Council may require that such imported nicat shall be
inspected by a food officer before being exposed for sale.
(2) The lessee to whom such permission has been
granted, shall cause a notice board to be placed at his stall,
in a conspicuous position, stating in English and Chinese
that he deals in imported meat, and stating also the place
from which such meat was imported ; the letters and charac-
ters of such notice shall be at least one and a half. inches
fong. He shall also make a. true return to the Council,
quarterly, of the quantity of meat irnported by him specify-
ing whence such rneat has been imported.
51. Any stall froin which horse flesh is sold or exposed
for sale shall display a notice ])caring the words 'HORSE
FLESh FOR SALE' in English and Chinese letters or
characters one, and a half inches long.
52. If a food officer discovers in any market any car-
case or part of a carcase of beef, mutton, goat's flesh or
pork not bearing the official mark other than meat exposed
for sale in accordance with permission granted under by-law
5o, lie shall seize it, and a veterinary officer may order it
to be destroyed and no compensation shall be payable in
respect thereof.
53. Any notice or communication to a lessee frorn the
Council or any government department shall, if posted on
his stall, be deemed to be duly served on the lessee.
54. Any lessee who is dissatisfied with any decision of
the Council may apply to the Council within 14 days from
the date of service of such decision for a review thereof. No
application for a review will be entertained after the expira-
tion of such 14 days.
55. The Council may expel from any rnarket any person
who has been convicted of contravening any by-law and may
prevent any such person from further carrying on any busi-
ness in such market or occupying any stall therein.
56. The Chairman of the Council, the Commissioner of
Police, the Director of Medical and Health Services, the
Director of Public Works, the Director of Agriculture,.
Fisheries and Forestry, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and
their respective officers as well as any food officer shall have
at all times froe access to every part of every market building.
57. Copies of these by-laws, in English and Chinese,
shall be kept posted in conspicuous positions in the markets.
58. The Council may from time to time, in respect of
any market, grant exemption from or suspend (with or
without imposing conditions) the application of all or any
of the markets by-laws or any part of any such by-laws or
by-law. Any such exemption or suspension may be
rescinded or varied at any time.
59. Any person who acts in contravention of by-laws
2, 10, 16, 17, 20, 21, 23 to 51, 56 and 57 shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars or to
imprisonment for six months, as well is to suffer any
forfeiture that may be prescribed therein.
60. These by-laws may be cited as the Markets By-laws.
SCHEDULE. [by-law 7.]
FORM A.
MARKET REGISTER,
Stall No . ............................................... Market.
Nameof
lessee & Date of For the Monthly Terms. Agree- Signa- Photo of
partners, entry, sale of. rent. of lease Seal. ment of ture of lessee.
if any.
G.N.A. 74/48. G.N.A. 280/48. G.N.A. 14/49. G.N.A. 134/50. G.N.A. 154/50. G.N.A. 181/50. G.N.A. 57/51. G.N.A. 87/51. List markets. G.N.A. 280/48. G.N.A. 134/50. G.N.A. 181/50. Establishing and closing market. By-laws. Market hours. Classification of stalls. Numbering. Register of stalls. Schedule Form A. Definition of lessee. Letting of stalls by Council. G.N.A. 154/50. Sale of marine fish by stall holders. G.N.A. 57/51. (G.N.A. 74/50). Payment of rent. Refunds of rent. Review of rental. Change of lessee. G.N.A. 154/50. Contravention of by-laws, Notice to determine tenancy. Stall sign-board. Absence of lessee. Deserted &c. stalls. Rates &c. Lamps. User of stalls. Employees. No sub-letting. Demand of monies. Use of market avenues. Place of sale. No obstruction. Structures and obstructions. No hawking &c. No begging &c. Medical examination. Nuisances. Spitting. Throwing rubbish &c. No sleeping in markets. Washing. Cleansing of stall &c. Flesh meat stalls. Chopping blocks. Fish stalls. Poultry stalls. Injecting fluid &c. into food. Prohibited. G.N.A. 14/49. Plucking poultry. Dust bins. Weights and measures. Lounging on counters, &c. Dogs prohibited. General cleaning of market. Sale of flesh meat. Imported meat. Sale of horse flesh. Seizure and destruction of meat &c. Service of notice on lessee. Review of Council's decision. Expulsion from market. Certain officers to have access at all times to markets. Copies of by-laws. Exemption from by-laws. Penalty. G.N.A. 87/51. Citation.
Abstract
G.N.A. 74/48. G.N.A. 280/48. G.N.A. 14/49. G.N.A. 134/50. G.N.A. 154/50. G.N.A. 181/50. G.N.A. 57/51. G.N.A. 87/51. List markets. G.N.A. 280/48. G.N.A. 134/50. G.N.A. 181/50. Establishing and closing market. By-laws. Market hours. Classification of stalls. Numbering. Register of stalls. Schedule Form A. Definition of lessee. Letting of stalls by Council. G.N.A. 154/50. Sale of marine fish by stall holders. G.N.A. 57/51. (G.N.A. 74/50). Payment of rent. Refunds of rent. Review of rental. Change of lessee. G.N.A. 154/50. Contravention of by-laws, Notice to determine tenancy. Stall sign-board. Absence of lessee. Deserted &c. stalls. Rates &c. Lamps. User of stalls. Employees. No sub-letting. Demand of monies. Use of market avenues. Place of sale. No obstruction. Structures and obstructions. No hawking &c. No begging &c. Medical examination. Nuisances. Spitting. Throwing rubbish &c. No sleeping in markets. Washing. Cleansing of stall &c. Flesh meat stalls. Chopping blocks. Fish stalls. Poultry stalls. Injecting fluid &c. into food. Prohibited. G.N.A. 14/49. Plucking poultry. Dust bins. Weights and measures. Lounging on counters, &c. Dogs prohibited. General cleaning of market. Sale of flesh meat. Imported meat. Sale of horse flesh. Seizure and destruction of meat &c. Service of notice on lessee. Review of Council's decision. Expulsion from market. Certain officers to have access at all times to markets. Copies of by-laws. Exemption from by-laws. Penalty. G.N.A. 87/51. Citation.
Identifier
https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/1924
Edition
1950
Volume
V10
Subsequent Cap No.
140
Number of Pages
10
Files
Collection
Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online
Citation
“MARKETS BY-LAWS,” Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online, accessed November 16, 2024, https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/1924.
