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(c) any personal hygiene or beauty product.

(3) If a retail business is carried on under a franchise agreement, the franchiser is the person who carries on that business for the purposes of subsection (1) unless the Director agrees otherwise.

2. Definitions

In this Schedule—

“drink” (飲品) means any liquid suitable or intended for human consumption, either without or after dilution, and includes water;

“food” (食物)—

(a) includes snack, confectionary, chewing gum, and any article or substance used as an ingredient in the preparation of food; and

(b) excludes any drink, live animal, fodder or feeding stuff for animals, and any article or substance used only as medicine;

“medicine” (藥物) excludes any article or substance customarily consumed only as food or drink;

“retail floor area” (零售樓面面積)—

(a) means the total floor area of any enclosed space at a retail outlet that is accessible by a customer;

(b) includes any area used as a passageway or occupied by a cashier, shelf, rack or goods on display; and

(c) excludes any area used as an office or for storage of stock.