Skylight Market managed by the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) located adjacent to Tin Shui Wai Tin Sau Road Park, provided a total of 40 market stalls. Skylight Market currently provides 2 market stalls to be allocated by computer balloting. It will be open for application starting from today. Details are as follows:
Application Period
From 9:00 a.m. on 13 March 2024 (Wednesday) to 5:45 p.m. on 26 March 2024 (Tuesday) (it shall refer to successful delivery of application)
Trades of Market Stalls
- There is a total of 2 stalls, including 1 siu mei/lo mei stall and 1 fruit stall.
- Please see details of the market stalls at Annex I, Annex II and Annex III.
Eligibility of Applicants
1.
Without prejudice to paragraph (2) below, persons meeting the following criteria are eligible to submit application:
a.
Any person aged 18 or above (as at the deadline for application) and ordinarily resident in Hong Kong [please refer to section 2 of the Immigration Ordinance (Cap. 115) for the definition of “ordinarily resident in Hong Kong"].
b.
Neither the applicant nor his/her "immediate family member" is a director or staff of the management services contractor1 of Skylight Market or of its "related person" or of its subcontractor.
Related person
- If the Contractor is a company, the expression "related person" of the Contractor includes any one of the following:
- a shareholder (corporate or individual) which directly or indirectly beneficially owns fifty (50) percent or more of the issued share capital of the Contractor ("majority shareholder"); or
- a holding company or a subsidiary of the Contractor; or
- a holding company or a subsidiary of a majority shareholder (being a company) of the Contractor; or
- a company in which a majority shareholder (being an individual) of the Contractor directly or indirectly beneficially owns fifty (50) percent or more of its issued share capital or controls the composition of its board of directors.
The expressions "holding company" and "subsidiary" have the meanings given to them in the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 622)
- If the Contractor is a sole proprietor or partnership, the expression "related person" of the Contractor includes any one of the following:
- any partner of the Contractor (if it is a partnership); or
- the spouse, parent, child, brother or sister of the Contractor, and, in deducing such a relationship, an adopted child shall be deemed to be a child both of the natural parents and the adopting parent, and a step child to be a child of both the natural parent and of any step parent; or
- a company in which the Contractor or any partner of the Contractor beneficially directly or indirectly owns fifty (50) percent or more of its issued share capital or controls the composition of its board of directors.
Immediate family member
"Immediate family member" in relation to an individual, means a spouse, parent, child, sibling, grandparent or grandchild of the individual.
2.
- Save for the circumstances specified in item (b) below, former tenants of public markets under FEHD whose tenancy has been terminated due to breach of tenancy condition or the relevant legislation shall not apply for any market stall for one year from the date of termination of tenancy.
- Former tenants of public markets under FEHD whose tenancy has been terminated due to non-payment of rent shall not apply for any market stall until the rentals in arrears plus interest thereon are settled.
- Existing tenants of public markets under FEHD who are repaying tenancy rentals in arrears by instalments shall not apply for any market stall until the rentals in arrears are settled.
- Former tenants who, within one year before the closing date of the application, leased the same stall in a public market under FEHD for two times or more and each tenancy for a period of 3 months or less (other than the short-term tenancy offered by the Government), shall not apply for any market stall.
- Any person who was successful in bidding a stall in any public market under FEHD at auction but failed to pay the requisite deposit as required under the terms of the auction, shall not apply for any market stall until the outstanding sum plus interest thereon are settled.
- Any person who, within one year before the closing date of the application, was successful in bidding a stall in any public market under FEHD at auction but failed to sign a tenancy agreement in respect of the stall successfully bided for two times or more (whether the tenancy relates to the same stall), shall not apply for any market stall.
3.
FEHD will not accept applications submitted by applicants who are not an eligible person as mentioned in paragraph (1) above, or who are persons prohibited from applying for any market stall as mentioned in paragraph (2) above.
Note 1: The current contractor is Ideal MCP Cleaning Limited.
Obtaining Application Forms
Applicants may download the application form from FEHD website (www.fehd.gov.hk) or apply online, or obtain the form in person during the application period at the District Environmental Hygiene Offices during office hours.
Notes for Filling in and Submission of the Application Form
- Applications must reach FEHD no later than 5:45 p.m. on 26 March 2024 (Tuesday) by the following means.
- Applications not in this prescribed form, applications not delivered by the deadline, or incorrect information provided in the applications will not be considered. Further, FEHD may not be able to process the application if the applicant has not provided sufficient information.
- Each applicant shall submit only one application. Duplicate application will not be considered.
- The provision of personal data in connection with this application is voluntary. However, if the applicant does not provide sufficient information, FEHD may not be able to process the application.
- FEHD will not accept underpaid application by post, which will be returned to the sender (with return address) or disposed of (without return address) by the Hongkong Post. For proper delivery of your application by post to FEHD, and to avoid unnecessary delivery delay or unsuccessful delivery, please ensure your application by post bears sufficient postage with return address before posting. [Please note details about postage as updated on the website of the Hongkong Post: https://www.hongkongpost.hk/.]
Submission of Application Forms
- Application by on-line application form
Application closed at 5:45 p.m. on 26 March 2024
- Submission of application by email (please submit application in pdf format)
Email Address: tswmkt@fehd.gov.hk - Submission of application by fax
Fax No.: 2477 5099 - Submission of application by post
Address: 2/F, Yuen Long Government Offices, 2 Kiu Lok Square, Yuen Long, New Territories
Tel. No.: 2475 3433 - Submission of application in person
Address: 2/F, Yuen Long Government Offices, 2 Kiu Lok Square, Yuen Long, New Territories
Tel. No.: 2475 3433
Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Closed on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays
Other Points to Note
- No fee is payable for obtaining or submitting the application.
- Applicants shall not offer any advantage to FEHD officers when having dealings of any kind with FEHD.
- A successful applicant will be invited to sign a Licence Agreement with FEHD with a term of less than 3 years (except otherwise specified) upon payment of 1 month’s Licence fee and 1 month’s Rates (when applicable) as well as a deposit equivalent to 2 months’ Licence fee and 2 months’ Rates (when applicable). A successful applicant will be required to sign an undertaking to undertake not to assign, mortgage, charge, demise, sublet or part with the possession of the market stall selected at Skylight Market or any part thereof or otherwise transfer any of his/her rights or obligations or interests or benefits under the Licence Agreement or enter into any agreement to do so.
- The successful applicant shall apply and arrange for the supply of electricity and water respectively with CLP Power Hong Kong Limited and the Water Supplies Department direct.
- If the trade business of the stall falls within the food business specified under Food Business Regulation (Cap. 132X), the successful applicant shall obtain the relevant food licences from FEHD at his/her own cost. For details, please visit FEHD's website at
https://www.fehd.gov.hk/english/licensing/Guide_on_Types_of_Licences_Required.html. - Licensees shall surrender to the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene any hawker licences held by them upon the commencement of the Licence Agreement. If for any reasons the Licence Agreement is subsequently terminated, the surrendered hawker licence will not be returned.
Processing of Application
- In general, FEHD will issue an acknowledgement of application to the applicant within 3 days upon receipt of application. The acknowledgement will be issued through SMS (for applicant who has provided a local mobile phone number) or by post (for application without any local mobile phone number). Applicants who do not receive any response within 5 days of submission of application may call 2475 3433 for enquiry.
- The order of priority of eligible applicants (“priority number”) in market stall selection is generated in a fair and impartial manner by way of open computer balloting. The date of ballot is scheduled for 10 April 2024 (Wednesday).
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FEHD has put up 1 sui mei/lo mei stall and 1 fruit stall for operation. Each eligible applicant will be assigned an application number to participate in the computer balloting. The balloting method is as follows:
FEHD will categorise the applicants based on the trade they selected. Computer balloting will be conducted for each trade respectively. The priority number of the applicants for each trade will be generated by computer random sequencing.
- If eligible applicants outnumber the available stalls, standby applicants will be put on a waiting list according to their priority numbers. If short-listed applicants fail to select a stall, standby applicants belonging to the same trade may select a stall according to their priority numbers. The waiting list will be valid for 6 months from the date of balloting.
- Upon completion of ballot, FEHD will notify eligible applicants in writing of their priority numbers. The result will be uploaded to FEHD’s website (www.fehd.gov.hk) the next day for checking by applicants. FEHD will also invite successful applicants by batches in writing for market stall selection and signing of the Licence Agreement in accordance with the sequence of their priority numbers.
Enquiries
Tel. No.: 2475 3433
Email: tswmkt@fehd.gov.hk
Website: www.fehd.gov.hk