Hong Kong Ordinances

MONEY LENDERS ORDINANCE - SECT 14

Revocation and suspension

(1) On the application of the Registrar or the Commissioner of Police, a
licensing court may make an order revoking or suspending any licence granted
by the licensing court if, in the opinion of the licensing  court- (Amended 69
of 1988 s. 12; 13 of 1995 s. 40)

   (a)  the licensee has ceased to be a fit and proper person to carry on
        business as a money lender; or

   (b)  the premises specified in the licence or any of such premises have, or
        the situation thereof has, ceased to be suitable for the carrying on
        of the business of money-lending; or

   (c)  the licensee has been in serious breach of any condition of the
        licence or has ceased to satisfy any other condition relating to his
        business as a money lender in respect of which the licensing court is
        required to be satisfied under section 11(5); or

   (d)  the business of the licensee has been carried on at any time or on any
        occasion since the date on which the licence was granted by recourse
        to the use of any methods, or in any manner, contrary to the public
        interest.

(2) The licensing court shall fix a date for the hearing of an application
under this section, and shall give 14 clear days' notice of such date to the
Registrar and the Commissioner of Police and the licensee; such notice shall
call on the licensee to show cause as to why such application ought not to be
granted and an order for the revocation or suspension of his licence ought not
to be made.

(3) In this section "licence" (牌照) includes a licence deemed to continue
in force under section 13(5).

"licence" (牌照)