If the baking of bread and other bakery products is carried out in a licensed restaurant (both general restaurant and light refreshment restaurant permitted to prepare and sell bread and other bakery products) and if such bakery products are for consumption of the customers on the premises, no separate bakery licence is required. Bakery LicenceĪ bakery licence must be obtained from DFEH for the food business which involves the baking of bread and other bakery products for sale at any premises in the territory before commencement of such business.
WHAT DOES LICENSE TYPE PCLP PK MEAN HOW TO
The application form and the Guide are downloadable from FEHD's website at from the columns with headings " Application for Food Licence" and " How to Apply for Restaurant Licences" respectively. For details of application for a restaurant licence, please make reference to the Guide. To apply for a restaurant licence, the applicant should submit an application form FEHB 94 to the FEHD for necessary action. For the operation of restaurant business on board a vessel, a marine restaurant licence is required. In this connection, a general restaurant licence permits the licensee to sell any kind of food for consumption on the premises while a light refreshment restaurant licence restricts the licensee to prepare and sell for consumption on the premises any one group of the food items listed in Appendix B of A Guide to Application for Restaurant Licence (Guide). Licences/Permits issued by DFEH Restaurant LicenceĪ restaurant licence must be obtained from the DFEH for the food business which involves the sale of meals or unbottled non-alcoholic drinks other than Chinese herb tea, for consumption on the premises, but does not include a factory canteen or any business carried on by a hawker who is the holder of a licence under the Hawker Regulation (Cap.132AI). Staff from FEHD provide executive and secretarial support to the board. To sell liquor, a licence is required from the Liquor Licensing Board.
WHAT DOES LICENSE TYPE PCLP PK MEAN FULL
A provisional licence is valid for six months, during which time the licensee has to complete all outstanding requirements for the issue of a full licence.Ī licence applicant can obtain a provisional licence over the counter from the FEHD Licence Issuing Office within one working day if all the essential licensing requirements are met. To facilitate the setting up of food businesses, FEHD operates a provisional licensing system in which a provisional food business licence is issued to premises that have satisfied all essential health, building and fire safety requirements. Trade licences are required for operating (a) commercial bathhouses, funeral parlours, offensive trades, swimming pools and undertakers (b) places of public entertainment, including cinemas, theatres, entertainment machine centres and exhibition venues and (c) temporary places of public entertainment including charity shows or religious ceremonies held temporarily by Kai Fong or other commodities, circuses holding temporarily and dance parties holding temporarily.
Licences are only issued to food premises if they conform to the prescribed safety and hygiene standards laid down by law. FEHD also issues permits for the sale of restricted foods, such as non-bottled drinks, frozen confections, milk and milk beverages, cut fruit, Chinese herb tea, leung fan, sushi, sashimi, oysters to be eaten in raw state, meat to be eaten in raw state, live fish, shell fish, shell fish (hairy crab) and food sold by means of vending machines, and for operating karaoke establishments in restaurants.
Restaurants, bakeries, cold stores, factory canteens, food factories, temporary food factories, fresh provision shops, frozen confection factories, milk factories, siu mei and lo mei shops and composite food shops are all required to obtain licences from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD). The purpose of this Guide is to provide members of the public with information on what types of licences required for activities regulated by the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene (DFEH) under the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance (Cap.