FEHD fights unlicensed hawking and blockage at foreign domestic assistants’ vacation meeting place (with pictures)
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A representative for the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) stated today (September 21) that to protect ecological health and food security, the department has actually stepped up intelligence‑led blitz enforcement actions targeting abnormalities such as unlicensed hawking and blockage of passages at locations where foreign domestic assistants collect on vacations throughout numerous districts over the previous month.
Throughout the very first couple of weeks of the operation, the department carried out promotion and education activities. Over the previous 2 weeks, FEHD officers detained an overall of 9 individuals at foreign domestic assistant meeting place for thought unlicensed hawking and triggering blockage in public locations, and took about 1.5 tonnes of items, consisting of prepared food, clothing, hats, shoes, bags and cosmetics. The jailed individuals made up 2 males and 6 females of non‑Chinese ethnic culture, and one Chinese male, aged 30 to 55. Amongst them, 2 males held recognisance kinds forbiding them from using up work, and one male held Exit-entry Permit for Travelling to and from Hong Kong and Macao. For all the detained individuals thought of breaching their conditions of stay, the FEHD will alert the appropriate police departments to act on the cases in parallel.
The FEHD has actually long been worried about blockage of passages, ecological health and food security issues emerging from unlicensed hawking at foreign domestic assistants’ meeting place. The department previously performed a promotion and education project lasting a number of weeks in partnership with personnel of pertinent consulates‑general in Hong Kong, dispersing multi-lingual brochures at locations where foreign domestic assistants often collect throughout different districts to advise them that unlicensed hawking is prohibited, and to interest them not to patronise unlicensed hawkers.
According to the appropriate regulations, unlicensed hawking goes through an optimum fine of $10,000 and 6 months’ jail time. If unlicensed hawking activities likewise trigger blockage of passages, transgressors might be fined $25,000 or put behind bars for 3 months. In addition, anyone who offers limited food (consisting of frozen meat, sashimi and sushi) without approval dedicates an offense and is accountable to an optimum fine of $50,000 and 6 months’ jail time upon conviction.
The FEHD declared its dedication to non-stop suppressing unlicensed hawking activities, and worried that foreign domestic assistants participating in unlawful hawking breach their conditions of stay. Companies are prompted to advise their assistants to comply with the law and keep ecological health. Members of the general public who encounter believed unlicensed hawking or other abnormalities might report them to the FEHD.