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KARAOKE ESTABLISHMENTS ORDINANCE (2) Subject to subsection (6), the licensing authority may on application in writing to him, showing sufficient cause to his satisfaction, and on payment of the prescribed fee, allow the transfer from a grantee of an existing permit until its expiration to another person or from a licensee of an existing licence until its expiration to another person, and the fact of such transfer shall be endorsed on the permit or the licence.

(3) Where a permit or a licence is transferred under subsection (2), a reference in this section and in sections 5, 8, 9, 10 and 11 and in any regulation made under section 21 to a grantee or a licensee shall be construed as a reference to the person to whom the permit or the licence has been transferred.

(4) Where a permit or a licence is transferred under subsection (2), the licensing authority may in respect of the permit or the licence impose any condition in addition to or instead of any condition previously imposed by him under section 5(2).

(5) Where the licensing authority refuses to allow the transfer of a permit or a licence under subsection (2), he shall give to the applicant, in writing, an adequate statement of the reasons for the refusal.

(6) Subsection (2) does not apply to a permit or a licence that is the subject of a notice served on a grantee or licensee under section 11.

7. Representatives of bodies corporate or partnerships

(1) Where a body corporate or a partnership wishes to obtain a permit or a licence under section 5, a person authorized by the body corporate or the partnership in that behalf shall apply as the representative of the body corporate or the partnership and, if a permit or a licence is granted or issued by the licensing authority, it shall be expressed to be granted or issued to that person on behalf of the body corporate or the partnership, as the case may be.

(2) Where a permit or a licence is transferred to a body corporate or a partnership under section 6(2), it shall be expressed to be transferred to a person authorized by the body corporate or the partnership in that behalf as the representative of the body corporate or the partnership, as the case may be.

(3) A body corporate or a partnership may make an application to the licensing authority in such form and manner as the licensing authority may determine to substitute another person (“the substitute person”) for the person whose name appears on the permit or the licence as the representative of the body corporate or the partnership.

(4) If the licensing authority is satisfied that the substitute person is a person who falls within section 5(3)(a), he shall grant the application and amend the permit or the licence to replace the name of the person specified therein with the name of the substitute person.