Application for food licence can be submitted in the following ways:

• Instructing a licensing consultant
• Applicant can also submit his/her application by himself/herself; documentation requires, inter alia, some kinds of forms/certificates/documents to be signed by an Authorized Person, and the following requirements have to be met:

• Compliance with Hygiene requirements
• Compliance with Ventilating System requirements
• Compliance with Fire Services Installation and Equipment requirements
• Compliance with building structure requirements
• No unauthorized structure causing fire hazard
• Sufficient means of fire escape
• Safety of gas supply
• Safety of electricity supply

Remarks: Food licence shall not be issued if the premises are for residential purpose.

Before you intend to open up a food shop, you should first consider if the premises would meet the relevant requirements for the issuance of a particular kind of licence you intend to apply for.

The requirements relate to fire services installation, ventilating system and other issues of fitting out a premises for the approval of various government department, such as food and environmental hygiene department, fire services department, building department and town planning department, etc, which procedures are somehow complicated and tedious to many laymen.