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CAP. 1112] Chinese Permanent Cemeteries [1987 Ed.
Originally 35 of 1964. L.N. 22/69. 76 of 1973. 74 of 1974. L.N. 257/75. L.N. 370/81. L.N. 76/82. L.N. 67/85. 10 of 1986. L.N. 94/86. 30 of 1987.
CHAPTER 1112 CHINESE PERMANENT CEMETERIES
To give statutory recognition to and to regulate the provision of permanent cemeteries for persons of Chinese race permanently resident in the Colony and to provide for the proper maintenance and administration thereof, and for purposes connected therewith.
L.N. 2620 f (PPP.
Preamble.
WHEREAS [4 December 1964.]
(a) by 3 deeds of appropriation dated respectively 16 June 1913, 22 August 1929 and 31 May 1963 (hereinafter referred to as the Deeds of Appropriation) certain parcels of land were thereby appropriated for use as cemeteries for persons of Chinese race who were permanent residents of the Colony although the title to the said land remained vested in the Crown;
(b) the cost of laying out the land the subject of the said Deed of Appropriation dated 16 June 1913, was met by subscription and by the said Deed it was provided that the application of the sums so raised, and the duty of managing the cemetery the subject thereof, be entrusted to a Board of Management (in this Ordinance referred to as the former Board where the context so requires) subject to the rules and regulations set out in the said Deed;
(c) the said rules and regulations provided, inter alia, that the former Board should be composed of not less than 12 nor more than 20 members of whom the Director of Public Works, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs (then styled Registrar General) and the Director of Urban Services (then styled the Head of the Sanitary Department) were ex officio members and the remaining members were to be selected from and elected by those who subscribed as mentioned in paragraph (b) and were, subject to certain exceptions, to hold office for life;
(d) by the subsequent Deeds of Appropriation the additional pieces of land therein described were appropriated to the former Board upon terms similar to those upon which the first piece of land was appropriated thereto and the cost of laying out such subsequent pieces of land as cemeteries was met out of the funds, then held by the former Board, derived from the management of the first cemetery;