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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 359.-The following Bill was read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 2nd December, 1936 :-
Short title.
Amendment
of Ordinance
No. 40 of 1934, s. 4.
Amendment
No. 40 of
A BILL
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[No. 38-18.11.36.-3.]
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Cremation Ordinance, 1934.
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- ment Ordinance, 1936.
2. Section 4 of the Cremation Ordinance, 1934, is amended as follows:-
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(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.
3. Section 5 of the Cremation Ordinance, 1934, is amend- of Ordinance ed by the addition of the words "or the Urban Council" after the words "Director of Medical and Sanitary Services" in the penultimate line thereof.
1934, s. 5.
Substitution
for Ordin-
4. Section 6 of the Cremation Ordinance, 1934, is ance No. 40 repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-
of 1934,
s. 6.
Provision
for hearing objections where application
is made to the Urban Council for
use as a
crematorium of premises within 200 yards of a dwelling house or within 50 yards of a public highway.
6.-(1) Where application is made under section 4 (5) for the permission of the Urban Council to use for the burning of human remains any building or place nearer to any dwelling house than two hundred yards or within fifty yards of any public highway, the Council shall cause notice of the applica- tion specifying the site to be published, at the expense of the applicant, in English and Chinese in three successive numbers of the Gazette.
(2) If any person objects to the grant of permission, in any case to which sub-section (1) is applicable, objection must be sent in writing to the Secretary of the Urban Council to reach his office not later than one week after the publication of the last of such notices.