HAWKERS ORDINANCE

HAWKERS ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 157.

HAWKERS.

To enable the Urban Council to make by-laws with respect to the
regulation and control by registratiort, licesnsing or otherwise
of certain hawkers

[1st January, 1936.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hawkers Ordinance.

2. The Urban Council may make by-laws with respect to the
regulation and control by registration, licensing or otherwise of
persons hawking any kind of commodity other than cigars, cigarettes
and tobacco.

3. All by-laws made by the Urban Council under section 2 shall be
submitted to the Governor and shall be subject to the approval of the
Legislative Council.

4. (1) By-laws under this Ordinance may provide that a
contravention thereof shall constitute an offence and prescribe
penalties therefor : Provided that no penalty so prescribed shall exceed
a fine of five hundred dollars or imprisonment for six months: Provided
also that forfeiture may in addition be so prescribed.

(2) Any licence issued under any by-law under this
Ordinance shall be liable to cancellation by the Urban
Council on the breach of any by-law to which the holder of
such licence is subject or on breach of any condition of the
licerice. [5]

5. In the absence of a police officer it shall be lawful for any officer
of the Sanitary Department, in whose presence a contravention of any
by-law under this Ordinance lias been committed, to arrest the offender
and either give him into the custody of a police officer or take him to
the nearest police station : Provided that no such arrest shall be
effected except in a public place or place of public resort or unless it is
impracticable to proceed against the offender

by complaint and summons [6]
22 of 1935. 25 of 1946. 14 of 1948. Short title. Power to make by-laws. Approval of by-laws. Penalties. Power of arrest in absence of police officer.

22 of 1935. 25 of 1946. 14 of 1948. Short title. Power to make by-laws. Approval of by-laws. Penalties. Power of arrest in absence of police officer.

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