THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 27, 1914.
HONGKONG.
No. 5 OF 1914.
An Ordinance to provide for the regulation of the burning of Human Remains and to enable Crematoria to be established.
I assent to this Ordinance.
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F. H. MAY, Governor.
[27th February, 1914.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the establish- ment of Crematoria in this Colony and the regulation thereof:
BE it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Cremation Ordi- Short title. nance, 1914.
2. In this Ordinance:-
Definitions.
The expression "Burial authority" shall mean any burial Burial An- board, council, committee, sanitary board, or other local thority. authority having the powers and duties of a burial board,
and any local authority maintaining a cemetery under the
Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, or under No. 1 of 1903. any other Ordinance.
torium.
The expression · Crematorium" shall mean any building Crema or place fitted with appliances for the purpose of burning human remains, and shall include everything incidental or ancillary thereto.
cremation.
3. The powers of a burial authority to provide and Burial Au- maintain burial grounds or cemeteries, or anything essential, thority may ancillary or incidental thereto, shall be deemed to extend to provide for and include the provision and maintenance of crematoria : Provided that uo human remains shall be burned in any such crematorium until the plans and site thereof have been approved by the Director of Public Works and until the crematorium has been certified by the burial authority to the Governor to be complete, constructed in accordance with such plans and properly equipped for the purpose of the disposal of human remains by burning.
4. No crematorium shall be constructed nearer to any Site of Cre- dwelling house than 200 yards, except with the consent matorium. in writing of the owner, lessee and occupier of such house, nor within 50 yards of any public highway, nor in the consecrated part of the burial ground of any burial author- ity: Provided that the Governor-in-Council may authorise the maintenance within these limits of any existing crema- torium for such period of time as he may think fit.
5. The Governor-in-Council may make regulations Regulations as to the maintenance and inspection of crematoria, and as to crema-
toria and prescribing in what cases and under what conditions the
cremation. burning of any human remains may take place, and directing the disposition or interment of the ashes, and prescribing the forms of the notices, certificates and declarations to be given or made before any such burning is permitted to take place, such declarations to be made under and by virtue of the Statutory Declarations Ordinance, 1893, and also regu- No. 8 of 1893, lations as to the registration of such burnings as have taken place. All statutory provisions relating to the destruction and falsification of registers of burials, and the admissibility of extracts therefrom as evidence in Courts and otherwise, shall apply to the registers of burnings directed by such regulations to be kept.
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