A licensee of a restaurant was sentenced to 14 days' imprisonment suspended for 18 months by the Kowloon City Magistrates' Courts yesterday (August 17) for extending the business area illegally.
A spokesman for the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) said that the department earlier detected an illegal extension of business area by a restaurant at Tsz Wah Lane in Tsz Wan Shan, Wong Tai Sin. An operation was thus mounted on March 23, and prosecution was instituted against the licensee of the restaurant.
Under the Food Business Regulation (Cap. 132X), save with the written permission of the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene, no licensee shall carry on any food business at or from any place beyond the confines of the food premises as delineated on the plan approved in respect of his or her licence. Anyone extending the business area illegally commits an offence and is liable to a maximum fine of $10,000 and imprisonment for three months upon conviction.
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