Public
Demetery rules.
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(b) the control of the number of dead bodies which may be buried
in any one grave or vault;
(c) the interspace between graves and between vaults;
(d) the manner of closing, turfing or covering of graves, the materials to be used therefor and the period within which any grave must be so closed, turfed or covered;
(e) the re-opening of graves and vaults and the removal of human
remains therefrom:
(f) the prevention and abatement of nuisances in connexion with any cemetery, grave, vault, urn or the burial of any humao remains:
(g) the entry and inspection of cemeteries and vaults:
(4) the proper management and control of cemeteries,
(2) In addition to the purposes specified in subsection (1), the Authority may in relation to any public cemetery make regulations prescribing or providing for-
(a) the lay out and use of any such cemetery or any part thereof
and matters ancillary thereto;
(b) the exhumation of human remains from any grave and Or
disposal of the same in a decent manner;
(c) the depth and size of graves and vaults and the size of any ·
monument or enclosure over or round any grave, vault of um (d) the orderly and decent conduct of any burial, exhumation of removal of any human remains and the performance of any ceremony, rite, custom or religious practice connected there- with in any such cemetery or in any part of any such cemetery and the orderly and decent conduct of persons resorting to any such cemetery;
(e) fees or charges payable in relation to the burial, exhumation and removal of any human remains, the setting up of ao) monument or enclosure over or round any grave, and com struction of any vault or urn and matters connected therewith. 117. (1) The Director of Urban Services, or such other publik officer as the Governor may authorize by notice published in the Gazette, may in relation to any public cemetery from time to time make rules for the better control, direction and information of persons resorting thereto;
of Provided that such rules shall not be inconsistent with any the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulations made under section 116.
(2) Any person who fails to comply with any rule made under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.
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burials and
118. (1) Any person who, without the permission in writing of Prohibition of the Authority, buries any human remains, or deposits any urn or other valorized receptacle containing any human remains, or scatters the ashes of any exhumations. buman remains after cremation, otherwise than in a cemetery, shall be guilty of an offence,
(2) Save in accordance with the provisions of this Part, any person who, without the permission in writing of the Authority, exhumes any human remains or any part of any human remains or any article interred therewith, or removes any human remains, or any part of any human remains, or any article from any um or other receptacle, or removes or carries away any urn or other receptacle containing any human remains from any place, shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) No permission under subsection (1) or (2) shall be granted to any person other than the legal personal representative or next of kin of the person whose remains are to be buried, deposited, exhumed or removed, as the case may be, or the duly authorized agent of such legal personal representative or next of kin, or failing any such legal personal representative or next of kin or any such agent thereof, a person who, in the opinion of the Authority, as a proper interest in the disposal of the human remains in respect of which such permission is granted:
Provided that the Authority may permit the removal of any human remains from one part of a private cemetery to another part of such private cemetery at the request of the management of such cemetery.
(4) Any human remains buried, or any urn or other receptacle coutaining any human remains deposited, otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of subsection (1) or of the provisions of section 19, outside a cemetery may be removed by the Authority and buried deposited inside a cemetery or otherwise disposed of in such decent Danner as the Authority may think fit:
Provided that-
(a) where such remains have been buried, or such urn or other receptacle bas been deposited, in the urban areas, the consent of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall be obtained before such remains are, or such urn or other receptacle is, removed; and
(b) where such remains have been buried, or such urn or other receptacle has been deposited, in the New Territories, the consent of the District Commissioner, New Territories shall be obtained before such remains are, or such urn or other receptacle is. removed.