1986 Ed.]
Funeral Parlour (Urban Council) By-laws [CAP. 132
(xiii) 1 tap therein shall be so constructed that hose-pipe may be fitted thereto so as to enable every part of the room to be hosed down as necessary, and a hose-pipe suitable for such purpose shall be kept available at all times.
8. (1) No body shall be embalmed or prepared for burial, encoffining or cremation in any funeral parlour otherwise than in a room used exclusively for such purpose.
(2) At all times during which any body is retained in any such room, the windows thereof shall be kept fully opened and, if the room is ventilated wholly or partly by mechanical means, the ventilating system shall be kept in operation provided that where an air-conditioning system is installed which services such a room, the windows thereof shall be kept closed and the air-conditioning system shall be kept in operation.
9. (1) No body in an advanced state of decomposition shall be received into any funeral parlour unless encoffined in a hermetically sealed coffin.
(2) No body shall be retained in any funeral parlour for a longer period than 48 hours unless the same is encoffined in a hermetically sealed coffin or is embalmed.
(3) Save with the permission in writing of the Director of Urban Services, no human remains whatsoever shall be retained in any funeral parlour for longer than 7 days.
10. Where it appears to the licensee of any funeral parlour that the body of any person who has died while suffering from any quarantinable disease has been received into such funeral parlour, he shall forthwith notify a health officer or health inspector of the fact.
11. (1) No person shall handle, or carry out any process of embalming, preparing or treating, the body of any person who, to the knowledge or belief of such person or of the licensee of the funeral parlour, died while suffering from a quarantinable disease, unless he is wearing a rubber apron, or other protective clothing of a type approved by the Council, and rubber gloves.
(2) Any such rubber apron, protective clothing and rubber gloves shall be disinfected immediately after the same has been used.
12. The licensee of any funeral parlour shall, at all times, keep the premises, including all fittings, equipment, furniture, utensils and apparatus therein, in a clean and sanitary condition to the satisfaction of the Council.
13. (1) The licensee of any funeral parlour shall keep a register in English or Chinese in which shall be recorded the following particulars--
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Embalming, etc. L.N. 71/78. Reception and retention of human remains. Bodies of persons dying while suffering from quarantinable diseases. L.N. 51/70. L.N. 235/74. Use of rubber gloves, etc. Cleanliness of premises. Registers. L.N. 235/74.Page 5
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