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Man and company fined for illegal club operations
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     A man and a company were each fined $3,100 at Eastern Magistrates' Courts today (October 25) for contravening the Clubs (Safety of Premises) Ordinance.
      
     The courts heard that in February this year, officers from the Office of the Licensing Authority (OLA) of the Home Affairs Department conducted an inspection at a club on Old Bailey Street in Central which had been operating with a certificate of compliance (CoC).
      
     The OLA officers posed as customers and patronised the club for food and drinks without being asked to show their membership status or being invited to join the club as members. Also, the club's staff failed to show a copy of the certificate of fire services installations and equipment, or the registered drawings, upon the OLA officers' request. Conditions 10, 17 and 19 of the CoC were breached.
      
     The man and the company, being the manager and the CoC holder of the club respectively, were charged with contravening section 21(1) (a) or section 21(2) of the Ordinance.
      
     A spokesman for the department reminded all CoC holders to comply with the conditions as stipulated therein. Enforcement action will continue to be taken against illegal club operations.
 
Ends/Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Issued at HKT 18:20
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