Hong Kong Regulations

HAWKER REGULATION - SECT 11

Deputies

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Where a licensee leaves or intends to leave Hong Kong, or is incapacitated
by illness, for a period of more than 8 days, he may, with the prior
permission in writing of the Director and on the payment of the prescribed
fee, appoint any person eligible to hold a hawker licence to be his deputy
during the absence or incapacity. (See Schedule, Part I)

(2) Where permission is given under subsection (1), the Director shall issue
to the deputy a permit in such form and containing such particulars as he
thinks fit and a hawker badge on which is shown the date of expiry of the
permit, and all the provisions of this Regulation, so far as they are
applicable and with any necessary modifications, shall apply to the permit as
if it were a licence or to the hawker badge as if it were a hawker badge
issued to a licensee. (L.N. 346 of 1989)

(3) The Director shall not, except in such special circumstances as he thinks
fit, grant any permission under subsection (1) for any period exceeding 6
months.

(4) Whenever a deputy acts for a licensee under this section, the duties
imposed on a licensee under this Regulation shall be complied with by the
deputy; and the deputy shall be liable to prosecution for contravention of
this Regulation as if he were a licensee.

(78 of 1999 s. 7)