| (78 of 1999 s. 7) (Cap 132, section 116) [23 December 1960] (G.N.A. 154 of 1960) Cap 132BI s 1 (Repealed 78 of 1999 s. 7) Cap 132BI s 2 Interpretation In this Regulation, unless the context otherwise requires- (78 of 1999 s. 7) "Director" (署长) means the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene; (78 of 1999 s. 7) "human remains" (遗骸) means the dead body or part thereof of any human being or any still-born child, but does not include ashes resulting from the cremation thereof; (L.N. 273 of 1996) "public cemetery" (公众坟场) means any cemetery specified in Part I of the Fifth Schedule to the Ordinance. (L.N. 273 of 1996; 78 of 1999 s. 7) Cap 132BI s 3 Allocations and lay-out of public cemeteries The Director may- (a) direct that any particular public cemetery or any part of a public cemetery be set aside or allocated for the reception of human remains of particular persons or of persons belonging to any particular community, race or religion; and (b) direct that the disposal of the human remains of any particular person, or the human remains of persons belonging to any particular community, race or religion, shall not take place in any particular public cemetery or any particular part of any public cemetery and that disposal thereof shall be effected in any other public cemetery or any other part of a public cemetery. Cap 132BI s 4 Register of graves (1) At every public cemetery, in the custody of the officer in charge thereof, there shall be kept a register in the form prescribed in the First Schedule containing particulars of the persons whose human remains are deposited in the cemetery. (2) Every register required to be kept by the provisions of subsection (1) shall be kept in duplicate, and, at the end of each month, the duplicate copy of the entries made therein during the preceding month shall be sent to the Director for custody. (3) (a) The register kept at any public cemetery may be inspected at the cemetery by the public at all times during which such cemetery is open to the public, and the duplicate copies kept in the custody of the Director may be inspected during office hours on application to him. (b) Any person requiring a certified copy of any entry in any such register may obtain the same from the Director upon payment of the prescribed fee. (L.N. 292 of 1977; L.N. 273 of 1996) (78 of 1999 s. 7) Cap 132BI s 5 Certain permits or certificates to be produced at time of interment A person in charge of the disposal in a public cemetery of the human remains of any person shall, in relation to such remains, produce to the officer in charge of the cemetery at the time when the interment takes place- (a) in the case of a first interment of the body of any person dying in Hong Kong- (10 of 1986 s. 32(2)) (i) a permit of a police officer issued under the provisions of the proviso to section 16(1) of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance (Cap 174); (ii) a certificate of registration of death or of a Coroner's order issued under the provisions of section 17(1) of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance (Cap 174); or (iii) in the case of the body of a still-born child, a certificate, declaration or Coroner's order issued or made under the provisions of section 18 of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance (Cap 174); or (10 of 1986 s. 32(2))(b) in any other case, the permission in writing of the Director authorizing the interment. (78 of 1999 s. 7) Cap 132BI s 5A Power to remove human remains, etc. in public cemeteries The Director may, as he deems necessary, remove from a public cemetery- (a) any human remains the interment of which has not been approved by the Director; or (b) any human remains and any coffin, urn or other receptacle containing such human remains interred in a grave which has been affected by landslide, rainstorm or natural disaster,and dispose of such human remains and any coffin, urn or other receptacle containing such human remains in such decent manner as he may think fit. (L.N. 273 of 1996; 78 of 1999 s. 7) Cap 132BI s 6 Times of burials (1) The Director may prescribe, by notice posted in such manner as he may think fit at any public cemetery or other place, the times during which human remains may be received into the cemetery. (2) In the case of the interment of the human remains of any person in the Hong Kong Cemetery, the person in charge of the disposal of such remains shall give to the officer in charge of the cemetery not less than 2 hours' notice of the time at which it is intended that the interment shall take place. (L.N. 292 of 1977) Cap 132BI s 7 Grave digging and construction of vaults, etc. (1) No person, other than an officer of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, shall, in any public cemetery, dig or fill in any grave without the consent of the officer in charge of the cemetery, and, where such consent is given, the work shall be carried out in accordance with the directions, and subject to the supervision of such officer in charge of the cemetery. (78 of 1999 s. 7) |
