Public

pleasure

ground rules.

Appointment and powers of keepers.

(Cap. 232).

Restriction

upon the keeping of dead bodies in domestic premises.

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(6) preservation of good order and prevention of abuses and

nuisances:

(c) the control (including prohibition) of building, trading or

advertising;

(d) the control (including prohibition) of fishing at any beach: (e) the control (including prohibition) of the use of vessels, boats or other means of water transport, including water skis and models, at any beach;

(f) the fees or charges payable in connexion with the use of any public pleasure ground or any part thereof or in connexion with the use of any facilities provided therein;

(g) the seizure and disposal of any vehicle, vessel, animal or other article or thing in respect of which any regulation made under this section is contravened.

110. (1) The Director of Urban Services, or such other public officer as the Governor may authorize by notice published in the Guzette, may make rules for the better control, direction and informa- tion of persons resorting to public pleasure grounds:

Provided that such rules shall not be inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulations made under section 109.

(2) Any person who fails to comply with any rule made under the provisions of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.

HIL (1) The Authority may appoint keepers for public pleasure grounds.

(2) Where any person is found by a keeper of any public pleasure ground to be contravening the provisions of any regulation, rule of order relating to such public pleasure ground, such keeper may arrest such person and deliver him into the custody of a police officer or take him to the nearest police station, whereupon the provisions of sections 46 and 47 of the Police Force Ordinance or of section 47 of that Ordinance, as the case may be, shall apply.

PART XI

DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD. General.

112. (1) Any person who keeps, or causes or permits to be kept. for a longer period than forty eight hours the dead body of any person in premises used for the purpose of human habitation shall, unless such dead body is encoffined in a hermetically sealed coffin, be guilty

of an offence.

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(2) Any person who, without the permission in writing of the Authority, keeps, or causes or permits to be kept, for a longer period than seven days (inclusive of the period of forty eight hours referred to in subsection (1)) any encoffined dead body, notwithstanding that the coffin be hermetically sealed, in any premises used for the purpose of human habitation shall be guilty of an offence.

Cemeteries.

113. (1) The places specified in Parts I and III of the Fifth Public and Schedule shall be places set apart for use as public cemeteries.

private

cemeteries.

(2) The places specified in Parts 11 and 1V of the Fifth Schedule Fift thall be places set apart for use as private cemeteries.

Schedule,

(3) The Governor in Council may by order amend, or add any cemetery to or delete any cemetery from, the Fifth Schedule,

114. (1) The Authority shall, as soon as practicable, prepare a Plans and plan of every cemetery and mark the boundaries thereof in such demarcation

of cemeteries. manner as it may think fit.

(2) Where the boundaries of any cemetery are so varied, or any cemetery is otherwise so changed, as to render any plan deposited in Accordance with the provisions of subsection (3) no longer accurate, the Authority shall withdraw the plan so deposited and shall, as soon us practicable, prepare an amended plan or a new plan of such cemetery and, where necessury, further mark the boundaries thereof in such manner as it may think fit.

(3) Every plan prepared in accordance with the provisions of sub- | section (1) or (2) shall be deposited in the appropriate Land Office.

115. (1) The general management and control of public cemeteries General sball be vested in the Authority.

management and closure

(2) The Authority may by notification in the Gazette declare any of public public cemetery, or any part of any public cemetery, to be closed.

(3) Any person who buries, or causes or permits to be buried, any buran remains, or deposits, or causes of permits to be deposited, any um containing any human remains, in any cemetery or any part of any cemetery which has been declared to be closed under the provisions of subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence.

cemeteries.

116 (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any deed of appro- Regulations priation, deed of grant or other instrument relating to any cemetery, the relating to Authority may make regulations prescribing or providing for-

(a) the marking or otherwise identifying of graves, vaulis and urns. and the provision, custody, maintenance and inspection of registers of burials therein;

cemeteries.

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