### Marine Fish (Marketing) By-laws 《海魚(統營)附例》

4. Notification of markets
Whenever the Organization assumes responsibility for the regulation and the conduct of a market, or establishes a market, a notification stating the name and location of any such market shall be published in the Gazette.

5. Notice of depots and ancillary establishments
A notice specifying the name and address of any depot and any ancillary establishment shall be conspicuously posted at all markets.

6. Display of administrative rules
Where the Organization has made administrative rules for any market, depot, or ancillary establishment such administrative rules shall be conspicuously displayed both in English and Chinese in every market, depot, or ancillary establishment to which they refer.

7. Display of hours of opening of markets
The Organization shall determine the hours during which each market shall be open for the conduct of business, and a notice of the hours of opening shall be conspicuously displayed at each market.

8. Admittance of persons to a market
(1) During the hours when a market is open for the conduct of business, it shall be open to any person having a bona fide interest in the business of such market, but the manager may refuse to admit any person and may order any person to leave a market if he thinks it desirable for the proper conduct of the market.
(2) During the hours when a market is closed, no person shall enter the market without the permission of the manager.

9. Part of a market may be set aside for sorting and weighing
The Organization may set aside part of a market to be used for the sorting or weighing of marine fish, and no person shall enter the part of the market set aside for this purpose without the permission of the manager.

10. Power to require vessel or vehicle to be moved
The manager may require that any vessel berthed at the waterfront of a market, or any vehicle parked within a market, be moved from the waterfront or any part of the waterfront of a market, or from the market or any part of the market.

11. Restriction of purchasers at a market
(1) No person shall be entitled to bid at an auction in a market or purchase marine fish at a market unless he is—
(a) a registered buyer;
(b) in the case of a corporation which is a registered buyer, an authorized representative of the corporation;
(c) an employee of the Organization, acting on the instructions of the manager and in accordance with by-law 16.
(2) In the absence of a registered buyer, a nominee buyer of such registered buyer shall be entitled to bid at an auction in a market or purchase marine fish at a market, as agent for such registered buyer.

### Marine Fish (Marketing) By-laws 《海魚(統營)附例》

12. Application to become registered buyer
(1) Any person may apply to have his name entered on the register as a registered buyer.
(2) An applicant for registration as a registered buyer shall furnish the manager with the following particulars—
(a) his name, including business name if he carries on business in a name other than his own;
(b) his business and private addresses;
(c) in the case of an employee or agent of another person, the name including the business name and the business and private addresses of his employer or principal;
(d) in the case of a representative of a hospital, institution, or unincorporated body of persons, the name and address of the hospital, institution or unincorporated body of persons that he represents; and
(e) the nature of his business, or reason for his application.
(3) On the receipt of an application under this by-law the manager may—
(a) accept an applicant as a registered buyer, subject to the condition that he should observe the provisions of these by-laws and of any administrative rules made by the Organization and duly displayed in accordance with by-law 6; or
(b) refuse to accept an applicant as a registered buyer on the grounds that he—
(i) is not a suitable person; or
(ii) has no bona fide interest in the wholesale marketing of marine fish.
(4) The manager shall, if requested to do so, state in writing the grounds for his refusal to accept an applicant as a registered buyer.

13. Application to register nominee buyers
(1) A registered buyer may apply to the manager to have the name or names of persons employed or nominated by him entered on the register as a nominee buyer or nominee buyers to act as agents of the applicant.
(2) On receipt of an application under paragraph (1) the manager may—
(a) accept any such person as a nominee buyer of the applicant, subject to the condition that he should observe the provisions of these by-laws and of any administrative rules made by the Organization and duly displayed in accordance with by-law 6; or
(b) refuse to accept any such person as a nominee buyer of the applicant, on the grounds that—
(i) the person is not a suitable person; or
(ii) a sufficient number of nominee buyers are already registered as nominee buyers of the applicant.
(3) The manager shall, if requested to do so, state in writing the grounds for his refusal to accept any person as a nominee buyer of the applicant.

### Marine Fish (Marketing) By-laws 《海魚(統營)附例》

14. Entry on the register
(1) The manager shall maintain a register, in which he shall enter—
(a) the name of any person who has been accepted as a registered buyer under paragraph (3) of by-law 12; and
(b) opposite the name of the registered buyer, the name of any person who has been accepted as a nominee buyer of such registered buyer under paragraph (2) of by-law 13.
(2) The register shall be available for inspection free of charge during the hours when a market is open for the conduct of business.

15. Removal from the register
(1) The manager may remove the name of any registered buyer from the register in the following circumstances—
(a) at the request of the registered buyer;
(b) on the death of the registered buyer;
(c) when the registered buyer has not used the facilities of the market for a period of 12 months, and having been requested to do so in writing by the manager, has failed within one month from such request to show good cause why his name should remain on the register; or
(d) on the grounds that he has failed to comply with the condition imposed on him under subparagraph (a) of paragraph (3) of by-law 12.
(2) The manager may remove the name of any nominee buyer from the register in the following circumstances—
(a) at the request of the nominee buyer himself, or of the registered buyer, opposite whose name the name of the nominee buyer has been entered on the register;
(b) on the death of the nominee buyer;
(c) on the grounds that he has failed to comply with the conditions imposed on him under subparagraph (a) of paragraph (2) of by-law 13; or
(d) when the name of the registered buyer, opposite which his name has been entered on the register, has been removed from the register under these by-laws.
(3) When the manager has removed the name of any registered buyer under subparagraph (d) of paragraph (1) or the name of any nominee buyer under subparagraph (c) of paragraph (2), he shall forthwith notify the registered buyer or nominee buyer of his decision and shall state the grounds on which his decision is based.

16. Employee of Organization acting as agent
(1) The manager may appoint an employee of the Organization to bid at an auction in a market, or to purchase marine fish, as agent for any person who is not a registered buyer.
(2) An employee of the Organization who has been appointed under paragraph (1) may not bid at any auction, unless he has, before the bidding has commenced, informed the auctioneer and all other persons present at that time of his intention to bid at the auction.