THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 18, 1926. 1125
HONG KONG.
No. 52 OF 1936.
I assent.
L.S.
A. CALDECOTT,
Governor.
18th December, 1936.
An Ordinance to amend the Cremation Ordinance, 1934.
[18th December, 1936.]
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 Amend- Short title. ment Ordinance, 1936.
2. Section 4 of the Cremation Ordinance, 1934, is Amendment amended as follows :-
(a) by the insertion in sub-section (4) after the word "place" in the first line of the words "situate in the New Territories other than New Kowloon”;
(b) by the insertion in sub-section (4) after the word "person" in the fourth line of the word ", society”; and
(c) by the addition of the following sub-section after sub-section (4) thereof :-
(5) a building or place situate in Hong Kong, Kowloon or New Kowloon in respect of which the Urban Council shall have granted permission in writing under the hand of its Chair- man, upon such terms and conditions as the Council may see fit, to some person, society or institution to use the same for the burning of the human remains or class of human remains specified in the permit.
of Ordinance No. 40 of 1934, s. 4.
Amendment No. 40 of
of Ordinance
3. Section 5 of the Cremation Ordinance, 1934, is amend ed by the addition of the words "or the Urban Council' after the words "Director of Medical and Sanitary Services" in the 1934, s. 5. penultimate line thereof.
4. Section 6 of the Cremation Ordinance, 1934, is Substitution
for Ordin- repealed and the following section is substituted therefor
ance No. 40
of 1934, s. 6.