Hong Kong Regulations

HAWKER REGULATION - SECT 12

Assistants

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) A licensee who holds a fixed-pitch hawker licence may employ such number
of assistants as he thinks necessary for the purpose of enabling him to carry
on his business, but no such assistant shall engage in hawking during the
absence (other than absence for reasonable cause) of the licensee from his
pitch.

(1A) Subject to subsection (1), a hawker shall not, for the purpose of
hawking, employ or be assisted by a person other than a person whose name is
endorsed by the Director on his licence. (78 of 1999 s. 7)

(2) A licensee who holds an itinerant hawker licence may not employ any
assistants.

(3) If any person acts as an assistant in contravention of subsection (1) or
(2), he is deemed to be hawking without a licence in contravention of section
83B of the Ordinance. (L.N. 143 of 1987)

(4) Any licensee who employs an assistant shall be vicariously liable for any
act done or omitted by the assistant which, if done or omitted by the licensee
personally, would be an offence against this Regulation; and the licensee may
be proceeded against for the offence and dealt with as if he had committed it
personally.

(78 of 1999 s. 7)