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It is
envisaged
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that this
question
would be
broached in the Land Commission by way of a paper on land
grants for private cemeteries. The Land Commission will
be asked to agree that in future land for private
cemeteries should be granted by way of Deeds of
Appropriation and that land grants for existing
cemeteries, whether by way of leases or Deeds of
Appropriation, should remain undisturbed. The paper will
explain that, in the past,
Deeds of Appropriation were
used as form of land grant documentation to make land
available for certain special purposes where title to the
land was not required. Such land
land grants included the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemeteries at Stanley
and Sai Wan and three other private cemeteries, a temple,
and two memorials. If the Chinese side agree, we shall
have on record in the form of an agreed minute of the Land
Commission that, among
other things, the present land
grant by way of Deeds of Appropriation in respect of the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemeteries will remain
undisturbed and valid up to and beyond 1 July 1997. The
Commission's concerns should thus be fully addressed.
(Given the Commonwealth links in respect of the
Cemeteries, it would probably be easier for the Chinese to
accept this proposal in the Land Commission paper which
applies to all private cemeteries, rather than for them to
specifically to the security of tenure of the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemeteries).
agree
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