974
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 387.—The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 8th November, 1934:-
(C.S.O. 4845/1929).
[No. 43-26.9.34.-2.]
A BILL
Short title.
Interpreta- tion.
Orders as to crematoria.
Use of un- authorised crematoria prohibited.
Schedule.
Matters pre- liminary to burning of human
INTITULED
An Ordinance to make provision for the cremation of the
dead.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Cremation Ordinance, 1934
2. In this Ordinance
"crematorium” means any building or place designed or adapted for the purpose of burning human remains.
3. The Governor may make orders for any of the following purposes:---
(1) to set apart any place or building or portion of a building for the purpose of a Government crematorium;
(2) to discontinue the use of any Government crema- torium and appropriate the site and buildings thereof to any other lawful purpose;
(3) to assign the care, conduct and control of Govern- ment crematoria to any person, board, body or institution.
4. No building or place shall be used as a crematorium other than and except--
(1) Government crematoria;
(2) the crematoria named in the Schedule;
(3) crematoria hereafter established with the consent of the Governor notified in the Gazette;
(4) a building or place in respect of which the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services shall have granted special and written permission, upon such terms and conditions as he may see fit, to some person or institution to use the same for the burning of the human remains or class of human remains specified in such permit.
5. Subject to the proviso in this section contained, not human remains shall be burned in any crematorium, other than Government crematoria and crematoria named in the remains in a Schedule, until the plans and site thereof have been approved by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services and the Director of Public Works, and until it has been made to appear to the Governor that the crematorium is complete, and has been constructed in accordance with such plans and is properly equipped for the purpose of the disposal of
crematorium.
Schedule.