1986 Ed.]
Public Funeral Hall (Urban Council) By-laws
[CAP. 132
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(4) The exercise of any discretion by the officer in charge pursuant to paragraph (3) shall be subject to such directions, if any, either general or in any particular case, as the Council may think fit to issue.
6. (1) No person shall bring into any public funeral hall any human remains in an advanced state of decomposition unless encoffined in a hermetically sealed coffin.
(2) No person shall leave in any public funeral hall any human remains for a longer period than 48 hours unless the same are encoffined in a hermetically sealed coffin or are embalmed.
(3) Save with the permission in writing of the Director, no person shall leave in any public funeral hall any human remains whatsoever for longer than 7 days.
7. (1) An applicant under by-law 5(1) shall produce to the officer in charge when any human remains are received into a public funeral hall-
(a) in the case of interment of any human remains of a person who has died in Hong Kong, a death certificate or a permit of a police officer issued under the proviso to section 16(1) of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance; or
(b) in the case of cremation of any human remains of a person who has died in Hong Kong, a permit granted by the Director of Medical and Health Services under by-law 5(1) of the Cremation and Gardens of Remembrance (Urban Council) By-laws and a death certificate; or
(c) in any other case, such documents as the Council may require.
(2) The documents specified in paragraph (1) shall be retained by the officer in charge until the human remains are removed from the public funeral hall for burial or other authorized disposal when they shall be returned to the person producing them.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1) "death certificate" means a certificate of registration of death or a coroner's order issued under section 17(1) of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance or a certificate, declaration or coroner's order issued or made under section 18 of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance.
8. (1) No human remains shall be embalmed or prepared for burial or encoffining in any public funeral hall otherwise than in a room set aside exclusively for such purpose.
(2) At all times during which any human remains are retained in any such room, the windows thereof shall be kept fully opened or, if the room is ventilated wholly or partly by mechanical means, the ventilating system shall be kept in operation.
[Subsidiary]
Reception and retention of human remains.
Production of documents for reception of human remains.
(Cap. 174.)
10 of 1986, s. 32(2). (Cap. 132, sub. leg.)
(Cap. 174.)
Embalming or preparation of human remains.
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