Hong Kong Regulations

HAWKER REGULATION - SECT 51

Refuse bins to be provided

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Every licensee, whether itinerant or operating from a fixed  pitch, shall
provide such number of refuse bins or receptacles which comply with subsection
(2) as may be necessary to hold the refuse resulting from the conduct of his
business.

(2) Every such bin or receptacle shall be of sound construction and conform
with such requirements and specifications as the Director may fro time to time
specify.

(3) Every licensee required to provide bins of receptacle under this section
shall ensure that they are at all times maintained in a good state of repair.
The Director, or any officer of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department
authorized by the Director or any police officer, may require a licensee to
replace any such bin or receptacle if he considers that the bin or receptacle
is not in a good state of repair; and the licensee shall comply with the
requirement within 24 hours of being notified of it.

(4) Without prejudice to section 39, every licensee, and every assistant of a
licensee, shall deposit any refuse or waste material emanating from the
business of the licensee in a refuse bin or receptacle required to be provided
under subsection (1).

(5) Every licensee shall ensure that all refuse which is accumulated in refuse
bins or receptacles provided under subsection (1) is deposited in a public
refuse bin or in a refuse disposal vehicle operated by the Food and
Environmental Hygiene Department.

(6) No licensee or assistant of a licensee shall deposit waste liquids in any
street or other public place.

(7) The Director may for the purpose of this section specify the size, shape,
design, and material of refuse bins or receptacles to be provided by
licensees.

(78 of 1999 s. 7)