Updated at 6.52pm: Two people were fined for unlicensed accommodation in separate cases on Wednesday in the Kowloon City Magistrates' Courts.
The first case involved a woman who was fined $5,000 for managing a guesthouse in Mong Kok without a valid certificate of exemption or a licence.
The court heard that officers from the Office of the Licensing Authority and Home Affairs Department (HAD) inspected a suspected unlicensed guesthouse on Prince Edward Road West, Mong Kok, last October.
An officer, posing as a lodger, rented a guestroom there during the raid. Some nine guestrooms providing sleeping facilities and a guest were found.
The woman, who was the keeper of the unlicensed guesthouse, was subsequently charged for an offence contrary to the Hotel and Guesthouse Accommodation Ordinance.
The second case involved a man, who was fined $20,000 for operating an unlicensed bed space apartment in Sham Shui Po.