BP 4
CAP. 132]
Public Funeral Hall (Urban Council) By-laws
[1986 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
Use of protective clothing.
Registers and obligation to provide information.
9.
(1) No person shall, in any public funeral hall, handle, or carry out any process of embalming, preparing or treating, the human remains of any person who, to the knowledge or belief of such person or of the officer in charge, 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 and any part of a public funeral hall where those remains were kept, embalmed, prepared or treated shall be disinfected immediately after use.
10. (1) The officer in charge of a public funeral hall shall keep a register in English or Chinese in which there shall be recorded the particulars listed in paragraph (2) together with—
(a) the date on, and the time at, which any human remains were received into the public funeral hall; and
(b) the date on, and the time at, which any human remains were removed from the public funeral hall.
(2) An applicant under by-law 5 shall furnish to the officer in charge of a public funeral hall the following particulars—
(a) the name and address of the applicant;
(b) the name and address of the deceased;
(c) the age or approximate age of the deceased;
(d) the sex of the deceased;
(e) the date, place and cause of death of the deceased;
(f) the date and number of the death certificate and of any permit for the burial, cremation, import to or removal from Hong Kong, as the case may be, of the remains of the deceased;
(g) the name and address of the medical practitioner (if any) who certified as to the death of the deceased, and of the person signing any permit for burial, cremation, import to or removal from Hong Kong, as the case may be, of the remains of the deceased;
(h) the method by which, and, as appropriate—
(i) the cemetery and space plot or grave number; or
(ii) the crematorium,
where, the remains of the deceased will be finally disposed of after removal from the public funeral hall; and
(i) if the deceased died while suffering from a quarantinable disease, whether or not those parts of the public funeral hall in which the remains of the deceased were kept were disinfected after such remains were removed therefrom.