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Fees and charges to be part of funeral
expenses.
Saving for magistrate.
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shall (in addition to any penalty or liability which he may otherwise incur) be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years.
(3) Every person who, with intent to conceal the com- mission or impede the prosecution of any offence, procures or attempts to procure the cremation of any body, or, with such intent, makes any declaration or gives any certificate under this Ordinance, shall be liable on conviction on indict- ment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding five years.
9. The prescribed fees, and charges and expenses properly incurred in or in connexion with the cremation of a deceased person, shall be deemed to be part of the funeral expenses of the deceased.
10. Nothing in this Ordinance shall interfere with any jurisdiction or power of any magistrate to order the cremation of a body, and nothing in this Ordinance shall authorise any person to create or permit a nuisance.
11. The Cremation Ordinance, 1914, is repealed.
SCHEDULE.
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1. The Japanese Crematorium at Sookunpoo.
2. The Sikh burning ground behind the Sikh Temple.
3. The cremation ground for Indian troops at Kowloon shown on a plan deposited in the office of and signed by the Director of Public Works, and thereon coloured red and blue.
Objects and Reasons.
1. The purpose of this Bill, as the title shows, is to regulate in the Colony the cremation of dead bodies by the establishment of crematoria and by the enactment of more exact and up to date provisions governing cremation than were made by the Cremation Ordinance, 1914.
2. Clause 3 empowers the Governor by order to set apart any place as a Government crematorium, to discontinue the use of any such place for cremation, and to assign any such place to the control of any person, board or institution.
3. Clause 4 recognises certain premises as crematoria and prohibits cremation elsewhere, but by paragraph (4) makes a special exception in favour of such places as certain monasteries and nunneries in the New Territories, allowing cremation therein with the special permission of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services.