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The Kowloon Cemetery No. 3.
The Kowloon Cemetery No. 4.
'Closed'.
Closed cemeteries.
The Mount Davis Cemetery.
Penalty for burial outside a cemetery.
Exhumation and removal of remains,
except by pern:it, prohibited.
Persons
to whom
permits may
be issued.
The Ma Tan Wai Cemetery.
The Kai Lung Wan Extension Cemetery.
The Po Kong Cemetery.
The Shamshuipo Cemetery
The Tseung Lung Tin Cemetery, Cha Kwo Leng.
The Sai Yu Shek Old Cemetery.
The Kowloon Tong Cemetery.
The Cheung Sha Wan Cemetery.
The Kennedy Town Cemetery.
The Hau Pui Lung Cemetery.
The Tai Shek Ku Urn Cemetery.
The Christian Chinese Cemetery, Kowloon City.
The Christian Chinese Cemetery, Kowloon Tong.
The Indian Cemetery, Tai Shek Ku,
180. Every person who, without the written pemrission of the Governor on the recommendation of the Council, buries any dead body elsewhere than in an authorised cemetery which has not been closed, and every person who without such per- mission deposits an urn containing the remains of any dead hody elsewhere than in an authorised cemetery which has not been closed, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
181. (1) Subject to the provisions of this section. it shall not be lawful without a permit granted in the manner hereinafter provided to exhume any body or the remains of any body which may have been buried in any place or to remove the remains of any body from any urn which may have been deposited in any place, and every person who exhumes any body or the remains of any body, or who removes the remains of any body from any urn, contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars.
(2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (4), such per- mit shall be granted only to the legal personal representative or next of kin of the person whose body or the remains of whose body are concerned or to the duly authorised agent of such legal personal representative or next of kin.
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(3) Such permit may be granted—
(a) in respect of any authorised cemetery, or urn ceme- tery, by tre Council, under the hand of the Secretary, and
(b) in respect of any place other than an authorised ceme- tery, or urn cemetery, by the Governor under the hand of the Colonial Secretary.
Authorities for issuing permits.
(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section (2), it Council may shall be lawful for the Council, under the land of the Secretary, to managers
grant permits
to grant to the manager or managers of a leased cemetery a of cemeteries, permit for the removal of any body or the remains of any body from any place in such leased cemetery.
(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-section (2), it Governor shall be lawful for the Governor, under the hand of the may grant
permits. Colonial Secretary, to grant a permit for the removal of any body or the remains of any body from any place other than an authorised cemetery, to any person who in his opinion has a sufficient interest in the disposal of the body or remains in question.
may
(6) The permitting authority may in each case prescribe Permitting such conditions as he may deem fit, and any person who Authority neglects to observe the conditions of the permit shall upon prescribe summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hund- conditions. red dollars.
(7) No such permit shall be granted in respect of any Permit where grave or urn on land held upon lease from the Crown without grave held the written consent of the Crown lessee or his duly authorised Lease, agent.
under Crown
Governor to remove any
(8) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, it Power of shall be lawful for the Governor, whenever he shall deem it expedient, to remove any body or the remains of any body body or from any grave or urn whatsoever and by order under his hand to direct such removal to be made in such manner as he shall think fit.
remains,
notice
(9) No such order shall be made directing any such re- Six months moval from an authorised cemetery or un cemetery until six required. months notice of the intention to make it shall have been given by notification in the Gazette.
Secretary
(10) When an order is made directing a removal from Duty of any place other than an authorised cemetery or urn cemetery, for Chinese the Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall take such steps, if any, Affairs, as he may deem necessary for giving notice to the persons interested in the disposal of the body or remains.
arrangement
reburials.
(11) The Government shall make proper and fitting ar- Fitting and rangements for the reburial in an authorised cemetery or urn proper cemetery of any body or the remains of any body removed to be under sub-section (8) and for the removal and re-erection of made for any monument, all charges in connexion therewith being de- frayed out of the public revenue! Provided that when it is desired otherwise to dispose of bodies or the remains of bodies of persons of Chinese race in accordance with Chinese custom, the necessary permission shall be given, subject to such con- ditions as the Governor may prescribe, all reasonable expenses in connection with such disposal, if within the Colony, being defrayed out of the public revenue.
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