Third Schedule.
Control of memorials, inscriptions.
be, to
Government cremetoria.
Third Schedule.
Conduct and behaviour in Government Crematoria,
officer in charge of the crematorium, be retained at such crematorium for any period not exceeding three months free of charge.
(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph (3), upon application to the Director and payment of the fee prescribed in the Third Schedule, ashes may be deposited at the crematorium either permanently or for such period as may be agreed with the Director.
13. (1) No person shall place or cause to be placed in any Government crematorium any monument, commemorative tablet, in- scription, receptacle for flowers or other ornament, except fresh cut Blowers, or shall plant or cause to be planted therein any tree, shrub or plant of any kind, unless
(a) the prior permission of the Director has been obtained; and (b) the appropriate fee prescribed in the Third Schedule has been
paid.
(2) Any permission granted by the Director under paragraph (1) may be granted subject to such conditions or restrictions as the Director may think fit.
(3) The Director may remove or cause to be removed any monu- meal,? commemorative tablet, inscription, receptacle for flowers, tree, shrub or plant which has been placed in any Government crematorium in contravention of any of the provisions of this regulation; and in any event may take all such steps as in his opinion are necessary for the maintenance of such crematorium in a suitable and scemly condition.
14. Any person who, in any Government crematorium—– (a) sells or lets for hire, or exposes for sale or letting for hire,
any article or thing without the consent of the Director, or (b) posts, affixes or distributes any poster, bandbill, card, circular
or advertisement whatsoever, or
(c) holds, promotes or takes part in any public meeting, other than a meeting of a religious or commemorative nature in respect of the dead, or
(d) wilfully disturbs or interferes with any funeral service or procession or any religious or commemorative meeting, or (e) discharges any firearms, except in the proper performance of
a military funeral, or
( wilfully or carelessly defaces, injures, soils or defiles any wall or other part of the crematorium or any thing situated therein, or
(g) climbs upon any wall or fence, being part of or enclosing any
such crematorium, or
(A) behaves in a noisy or unseemly manner or is improperly or
inadequately clad.
shall be guilty of an offence.
15.
Any person other than a relative or personal legal represent- Restriction ative of a deceased person whose buman remains are being cremated op jospection therein, who, except with the consent of the officer in charge thereof, of furnaces. attends the insertion of any coffin or human remains into any furnace of a Government crematorium or otherwise inspects any such furnace, shall be guilty of an offence:
Provided that the provisions of this regulation shall not apply in the case of any cremation carried out in accordance with the rites of the Hindu religion in any part of a Government crematorium allocated by the Director for such purpose.
16. (1) Any person who, in any Government crematorium, fails to obstruction, comply with any such reasonable order, not being inconsistent with any of the provisions of the Ordinance or of these regulations, as may from time to time be posted in such crematorium by or on behalf of the Director or of the Urban Council for the purpose of ensuring or facilitating the proper management of such crematorium or the conduct of cremations carried out therein, shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) Any person who wilfully obstructs any member of the stall of a Government crematorium in the carrying out of his duty therein shall be guilty of an offence,
PART IV.
Private Crematoria.
17. The person legally entitled to the possession of any private Management crematoriuni shall nominate a person, not being a body of persons
of private crematoria. corporate or unincorporate, to be the manager thereof, and shall register with the Urban Council, or in the case of any private crematorium situated in the New Territories with the Director, the name and address of such manager, and, in the event of any alteration in such nomination or such address shall, within fourteen days thereafter, notify the Urban Council or the Director, as the case may be.
14. (1) The manager of any private crematorium shall maintain Register of a register at or near the crematorium in which shall be recorded, not cremations. later than forty-eight hours after any cremation carried out in such crematorium-
(a) the serial number of the cremation;
(b) the date of the cremation permit or magisicate's order;
(c) the date on which the cremation is carried out;
(d) the name, sex and approximate age of the deceased person
whose remains were cremated;