Hong Kong Regulations

HAWKER REGULATION - SECT 9

Itinerant hawker licences

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) In every case where an application for an itinerant hawker  licence is
granted, the Director shall, subject to subsection (2), issue to the applicant
in such form as he thinks fit an itinerant hawker licence which authorizes the
applicant to hawk in a hawker permitted area or in such places as may be
specified in such licence, otherwise than from a fixed pitch. (L.N. 35 of
1974)

(2) Every such licence shall-

   (a)  state on its face that it is an itinerant hawker licence;

   (b)  specify an identifying number;

   (c)  specify the name and address of the licensee;

   (d)  specify the nature of the commodity to be sold, or the service to be
        provided, as the case may be;

   (e)  have affixed to it one of the photographs which accompanied the
        application;

   (f)  state that the licence is issued subject to the condition that the
        licensee complies with this Regulation.

(3) Without limiting subsection (2), the Director may in any such licence-

   (a)  impose on the licensee conditions relating to the sale of the
        commodity, or, as the case may be, the provision of the service, which
        he is permitted to hawk;

   (b)  prescribe the hours during which the licensee may hawk;

   (c)  specify the areas in which the licensee may hawk;

   (d)  specify such other particulars as the Director considers necessary.

(78 of 1999 s. 7)