The manager of an unlicensed Hong Kong karaoke club has been fined after officers posed as customers looking for a singsong.
According to a government release, the man was slapped with a HKD5,000 fine at Tuen Mun Magistrates’ Court yesterday for contravening the Karaoke Establishments Ordinance.
When the undercover investigators from Hong Kong’s Office of the Licensing Authority (OLA) entered the premises on Tai Pei Tau Path in Yuen Long in December last year under the pretext of partaking in the fun, they found the venue did not have a valid permit.
A department spokesman stressed that such blatant rule flouting is punishable by a maximum fine of HKD100,000 and a year in prison, and urged the public to report any unlicensed establishments.
As the karaoke classic goes: they fought the law, and the law won.
