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Citation.
Interpreta- tian
Management.
Register of burial.
First Schedule.
Numbering of KUBITES, etc.
PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE, 1960. (No. 30 of 1960).
PRIVATE CEMeteries BY-LAWS, 1960.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 116 of the Public. Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, the Urban Council has made the following by-laws-
1. These by-laws may be cited as the Private Cemeteries By-laws, 1960.
1 La these by-laws, save where the context otherwise requires- "Council" means the Urban Council;
"Director" means the Director of Urban Services;
"private cemetery" means any cemetery specified in Part II of the
Fifth Schedule to the Ordinance.
3. (1) The person entitled to the possession of any private cemetery shall appoint some person, not being a corporation, to be the manager thereof, and shall register with the Council the name and address of the person who is, for the time being, so appointed.
(2) In the event of any change in the address of the person who is so appointed, the person entitled to the possession of the cemetery sball, within fourteen days of such change, notify the Council thereof,
4 (1) The manager of every private cemetery shall maintain a register in which shall be recorded, not later than forty-eight hours after the reception into the cemetery of any human remains, the par- ticulars specified in the First Schedule relating to the person whose human remains have been received therein and to such remains, together with the signature of the person in charge of the disposal thereof.
(2) Each month, not later than the seventh day thereof, the manager of every private cemetery shall send to the Director a duplicate copy of every entry recorded during the preceding month in such register.
(3) The duplicate copy sent to the Director in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (2) shall be open to inspection by any member of the public on application to the Director.
5, Every grave, vault or urn in a private cemetery shall be marked in a permanent manner with distinguishing number or Chinese character, which shall correspond with the number or character entered in the register kept in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1) of by-law 4.
6. (1) No person shall, in any private cemetery-
(a) cause any human remains to be buried in a grave in such a manner that any part of the coffin, or the body if the same is not encoffined, is at a depth of less than three feet below the level of the ground adjoining the grave:
Provided that, where skeletal remains or ashes are con- tained to an urn, a depth of eighteen inches shall suffice; (6) cause any human remains to be buried in a grave unless the coffin, or the body if the same is not encoffined, is effectually separated from any other coffin or body which is already in the grave by means of a layer of earth not less than six inches in thickness; or
(c) cause any grave to be dug in such a manner as to leave less than eighteen inches interspace between any part of such grave and any other grave.
(2) Save in so far as may be necessary in the course of disposing of any human remains contained therein, no person shall, in any private cemetery, leave any coffin or urn deposited on the surface of the ground.
Manner of burial
7. Where, in any private cemetery, any grave is re-opened for Re-opening the purpose of making another interment therein, no person shall disturb of graves any human remains interred therein or remove therefrom any soil which is offensive.
8. (1) No person shall deposit any human remains in a vault in Burial iev a private cemetery unless such remains are encoffined:
Provided that skeletal remains or ashes after cremation may be enclosed in an urn,
(2) Every person who deposits any human remains în a vault shall, within twenty-four hours after the deposit in the vault of the coffin containing such remains, cause the coffin to be wholly and permanently embedded in and covered with a layer of good cement concrete, not less than six inches in thickness, or to be wholly and permanently enclosed in a separate cell or receptacle which shall be constructed of slate or stone flagging, not less than two inches in thickness and properly jointed in cement, or of good brickwork in cement and in such a manner as to prevent, so far as practicable, the escape of any noxious gas from the interior of the cell or receptacle. (3) The provisions of paragraph (2) shall not apply to any skeletal remains or ashes after cremation which are enclosed in an uro.
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Nothing in these by-laws shall be taken or construed to Scattering of prevent the scattering of ashes after cremation upon the surface of the ashes after ground in any private cemetery,
Eternation.