Apply for Bakery Licence Hong Kong : fehd.gov.hk

Organization : Food and Environmental Hygiene Department
Facility : Apply for Bakery Licence
Country : China

Website : www.fehd.gov.hk/english/index.html
Terms & Conditions : https://www.statusin.org/uploads/27416-Bakery.PDF

Apply for Bakery Licence :

Application Procedure :
Application should be made by submission of a standard application form (FEHB 94), a declaration on premises in compliance with Government lease conditions (FEHB 192),

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and 3 copies of a proposed layout plan of the premises (drawn to scale and in metric unit) to Assistant Secretary (Other Licences) of Licensing Office concerned (see Appendix I).

The standard forms are obtainable from all Licensing Offices and District Environmental Hygiene Offices and can be downloaded from the website of Food and Environmental Hygiene Department at Official Website

The application should contain the following :-
(a) The class of licence applied for;

(b) full address of the premises under application for a licence including name of the street, number of the premises, name of the building and the flat number etc to avoid postal misdelivery;

(c) the name, correspondence address, telephone number and identity card number of the applicant; if the applicant is a corporation, the name and address of the corporation and the name and home address of the managing director and authorized person;

(d) the type of heating equipment and the type of fuel intended to be used;
(e) whether air-conditioning system is to be installed in the shop; if so, the type and working capacity of such installation.

The application must be signed by the applicant personally. A licence may be issued in the name of a person or a corporation.

Before the applicant receives a letter of licensing requirements from the Licensing Authority, he is advised not to start any work on decoration. He must also not start the business before obtaining the licence. Otherwise, he will be liable to prosecution.

Processing of Application and Notification of Licensing Requirements :
Upon receipt of the application for licensing, the Assistant Secretary (Other Licences) concerned will acknowledge it and inform the applicant in writing the date and time when the Licensing Inspector will conduct inspection to the subject premises to assess its suitability for licensing after the proposed layout plan passing the preliminary screening.

If the appointment is inconvenient to him, he can always request to change it to another date by telephoning the Assistant Secretary (Other Licences) concerned, but this will cause some delay in the processing of the application.

Meanwhile, the application will be referred to the Director of Fire Services and other Government departments for comments, as appropriate.

However, if in connection with the food business, the fuel consumption rate exceeds the following statutory limits, the applicant should also obtain prior approval from the Environmental Protection Department (Appendix II) for the installation of the stoves and chimneys :

(a) gaseous fuel : 1150 megajoules per hour; or
(b) liquid fuel : 25 litres per hour; or
(c) solid fuel : 35 kilograms per hour.

After all these inspections and upon clearance from all Government departments concerned, the Assistant Secretary (Other Licences) concerned will list out in detail the licensing requirements and convey them to the applicant in writing for his compliance before a licence can be issued.

For details of the main licensing requirements, please refer to Appendix III. The applicant is advised, in his own interest, to make reference to the Food Business Regulations, Cap.132X.

The applicant can start the decoration work only upon notification in writing of licensing requirements from the Licensing Authority.

If the subject premises are unsuitable for licensing, the applicant will be informed of the rejection of the application by the Assistant Secretary (Other Licences) concerned together with reasons

Non-compliance with Licensing Requirements :
If the applicant fails to comply with all the licensing requirements after verification inspection by Licensing Inspector, the Assistant Secretary (Other Licences) concerned will inform him of the outstanding requirements in writing for his early remedial action.

He will also be advised to report compliance again for another verification inspection after he has complied with the outstanding requirements.

If no report of compliance of licensing requirements is received, the Licensing Inspector will only inspect the premises once within the first 3 months after the issue of letter of requirements to check progress of the application.

Afterwards, only quarterly reminders will be issued to the applicant reminding to expedite action to comply with all licensing requirements for the issue of licence by the Assistant Secretary (Other Licences).