### Agricultural Products (Marketing) Regulations 《農產品(統營)規例》

6. Refusal and cancellation of permits and conditions
(1) The Director may refuse to issue any permit required under these regulations and may cancel any such permit at any time.
(2) A permit issued under these regulations by the Director shall be subject to such conditions as the Director considers necessary for the purpose of carrying out the objects of the Ordinance.
(3) A permit issued under these regulations on behalf of the Director by a person authorized in that behalf by the Director shall be subject to such conditions as the Director has approved, either generally or in the particular case, being conditions that the Director considers necessary for the purpose of carrying out the objects of the Ordinance.
(G.N.A. 100 of 1962; L.N. 144 of 1973)

7. Saving
Nothing in these regulations shall be construed to prevent or restrict within the New Territories Area or the Kowloon Area—
(a) the sale retail of any vegetables by the producer thereof;
(b) the sale retail of any vegetables purchased at a wholesale vegetable market;
(c) the movement of any vegetables purchased retail or at a wholesale vegetable market.
(G.N.A. 100 of 1962)

8. Market register and registration
(1) The market manager shall maintain a register to be known as the market register of persons entitled to purchase vegetables at such market.
(2) The market register shall be kept at the market office of every wholesale vegetable market.
(3) The market register shall be available for inspection by any member of the public between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. daily, except on Saturdays and general holidays.
(4) An applicant for registration shall furnish to the market manager information as to his name, his business name if he carries on business in a name other than his own, his business and private address, and if such applicant be an employee or agent of another person in addition all the foregoing information relating to his employer or principal.
(5) Entry upon and deletion of persons from the market register shall be made in the discretion of the market manager, subject to appeal to the Director.
(6) The market manager may supply an identity badge to each person whose name is entered in the market register.

9. Person entitled to purchase at wholesale vegetable market
No person may purchase vegetables at a wholesale vegetable market unless his name is included in the market register.

### Agricultural Products (Marketing) Regulations 《農產品(統營)規例》

10. Sales at wholesale vegetable markets, etc.
(1) All sales at a wholesale vegetable market shall be made through the agency of a market salesman approved by the Director.
(2) The approval of the Director under paragraph (1) may be given subject to such terms and conditions as he thinks fit.
(3) The Director may at any time withdraw his approval under paragraph (1) in the event of a breach by the market salesman of any term or condition to which such approval was subject.
(L.N. 126 of 1969)

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)

### Agricultural Products (Marketing) Regulations 《農產品(統營)規例》

12. Commission payable to the Director
(1) Any person who brings vegetables into a wholesale vegetable market shall pay commission to the Director.
(2) The commission payable under paragraph (1) shall be—
(a) the prescribed percentage of the purchase price of the vegetables brought into the market; or
(b) the prescribed fee charged on the weight of the vegetables brought into the market.
(3) The Director may, after consulting the Advisory Board, by notice posted in the market declare—
(a) whether the commission payable under paragraph (1) shall be charged in accordance with paragraph (2)(a) or (b); or
(b) the cases in which such commission shall be charged in accordance with paragraph (2)(a) and the cases in which it shall be charged in accordance with paragraph (2)(b).
(4) The Director shall not change the method for the time being declared under paragraph (3) as the method for charging the commission payable under paragraph (1) unless he has given one month’s notice of his intention to do so.
(5) The Director may, after consulting the Advisory Board, by notice in the Gazette prescribe—
(a) the percentage to be paid where the commission payable under paragraph (1) is charged in accordance with paragraph (2)(a); and
(b) the fee to be charged where the commission payable under paragraph (1) is charged in accordance with paragraph (2)(b).
(6) Where, in the case of any vegetables, the commission payable under paragraph (1) will be charged in accordance with paragraph (2)(a), the Director may transport the vegetables without charge from a collecting centre to the wholesale vegetable market.
(L.N. 126 of 1969)

13. Bringing of vegetables into market
No person shall bring vegetables into a wholesale vegetable market except at such gate as the market manager directs.
(L.N. 126 of 1969)

14. Powers of market manager
(1) Where he considers it expedient to do so in the interest of the efficient operation of a wholesale vegetable market, the market manager may direct that such vegetables as he may specify shall not be brought into the market until he is satisfied that they may be brought into the market without disturbing its efficient operation.
(2) (a) The market manager may require any person to remove, or cause to be removed, from the wholesale vegetable market, within such period as he may specify, any empty container which has been used for the storage of vegetables and is in the possession or under the control of that person.
(b) If a requirement under sub-paragraph (a) is not complied with, the market manager may dispose of the container in such manner as he thinks fit.
(L.N. 126 of 1969)

### Agricultural Products (Marketing) Regulations 《農產品(統營)規例》

15. Functions of the Director
Subject to the provisions of the Ordinance and of these regulations, the Director may—
(a) on such terms and conditions as he thinks fit—
(i) provide such services as he may consider necessary or desirable for the improvement of agriculture or of the marketing of agricultural products; and
(ii) engage in any activity which may improve or assist in the improvement of agriculture; (L.N. 126 of 1969)
(b) make provision for the education, health and welfare of persons employed in agriculture and marketing and their families and dependants; (L.N. 126 of 1969)
(c) grant loans to persons employed in agriculture upon such terms as to capital and interest as he may think fit; (L.N. 126 of 1969)
(d) employ such persons or agents on such terms as to remuneration or otherwise as he may determine;
(e) grant pensions, gratuities and retiring allowances to such persons or agents or their dependants;
(f) do such other things as may be necessarily ancillary to the proper carrying out of any of the aforesaid functions.
(G.N.A. 100 of 1962)