Hong Kong Regulations

HAWKER REGULATION - SECT 7

Applications for licences

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Every application for a licence shall-

   (a)  be made in writing to the Director in such form, and contain such
        particulars, as the Director may reasonably require;

   (b)  specify whether a fixed-pitch hawker licence, an itinerant 
        hawker licence, or a temporary hawker licence is required;

   (c)  be accompanied by the prescribed fee and by 4 full-face passport-size
        photographs of the applicant which shall portray a recognizable
        likeness of him. (See Schedule, Part I)

(2) Where an applicant applies for a fixed-pitch hawker licence, the Director
may withhold the issue of a licence-

   (a)  until the stall and equipment proposed to be used in connection with
        the licensee's business have been constructed or provided in
        accordance with specifications approved by the Director; (L.N. 73 of
        1973)

   (b)  if the application is for a licence authorizing the applicant to deal
        in drink or cooked food, until a suitable pitch is available for
        allocation to him under section 33(1).

(78 of 1999 s. 7)