Licence for private market

Licence for private market:

1. (1) No person shall open a new private market or continue to keep open a private market unless he obtains from the Executive Council a licence to do so.
2. (2) Application for such licence shall be made by the owner of the place in respect of which the licence is sought not less than thirty and not more than ninety days before such place is opened as a market, or the commencement of the year for which the licence is sought to be renewed as the case may be.
3. (3) The Executive Council shall as regards private markets already lawfully established, and may at its discretion as regards new private markets, grant the licence applied for subject to such regulations as to supervision and inspection and to such conditions as to sanitation, drainage, water-supply, width of paths and ways, weights and measures to be used and rents and fees to be charged in such market as the Executive Council may think proper; or the Executive Council may refuse to grant any such licence for any new private market. The Executive Council may, however, at any time, for breach of the conditions thereof, suspend or cancel any licence which has been granted under this section. The Executive Council may also modify the conditions of the licence to take effect from a specified date.
4. (4) When a licence is granted, refused, suspended, cancelled or modified under this section, the Executive Council shall cause a notice of such grant, refusal, suspension, cancellation or modification in English and in a regional language of the district to be posted in some conspicuous place at or near the entrance to the place in respect of which the licence was sought or had been obtained.
5. (5) Every licence granted under this section shall expire at the end of the year.