Hong Kong Regulations

FOOD BUSINESS REGULATION (EXEMPTION FROM SECTION 31(1)) NOTICE - PARAGRAPH 2

Exemptions from section 31(1)

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Any person who-

   (a)  carries on the business of bottling or canning edible oil; or

   (b)  carries on the business of a restaurant or of a siu mei and lo mei
        shop, and does so in-

        (i)    a public market in a stall which he holds under a tenancy
               agreement with the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene,
               or

        (ii)   a private market as a licensed stallholder under the Private 
               Markets Regulation ( Cap 132 sub. leg.); or

   (c)  carries on the business of sorting, sifting, drying or repacking of
        tea; or (L.N. 105 of 1984; L.N. 100 of 1993)

   (d)  carries on the business of packing of rice, (L.N. 100 of 1993) is
        hereby exempted, to the extent of such business, from the obligation
        to hold a food business licence under section 31(1) of the
        Food Business  Regulation ( Cap 132 sub. leg.). (L.N. 17 of 1979; L.N.
        47 of 1979; L.N. 70 of 1985; 10 of 1986 s. 32(2); 78 of 1999 s. 7)