S.L. 10.13 Art. 5Renewal of licences.

Licences granted as above shall be renewed on the 1st January of each year, provided that -

(a) the renewal is not, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Police, open to objection on any of the following grounds:

(i) the non-observance on the licensed premises of any of these Regulations;

(ii) the conviction of the licensee on any of the contraventions referred to in article 193 of the Code of Police Laws or in articles 3, 9, 10 and 128 of the Food, Drugs and Drinking Water * Ordinance , or of any crime;

(iii) the character of the licensee, or of his wife or her husband, during the past twelve months;

(iv) the surrender of the premises for which the licence was granted;

(v) the fact that the premises have been generally ill-conducted;

(b) no objection is raised by the Department of Health on the ground of neglect of sanitary conditions and precautions.