Hong Kong Regulations

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS (MARKETING) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 11

Payment for purchase

(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), no person may remove
vegetables purchased at a wholesale vegetable market until the price thereof
has been paid in cash to the market salesman or to any person authorized by
the seller to receive the same.

(2) Any purchaser at a wholesale vegetable market who has produced guarantees
to the satisfaction of the market manager that any liabilities incurred by
such purchaser will be met in default of payment by such purchaser by the
person giving such guarantees may be granted permission by the market manager
to purchase on credit in accordance with conditions laid down from time to
time by the Director.

(3) No seller shall be required to sell his vegetables on credit.

(4) Neither the Director nor the market manager nor the market  salesman shall
be liable for any loss sustained by a seller in consequence of the grant of
credit facilities by the seller to a purchaser or his agent. (L.N. 126 of
1969)