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COMPARATIVE TABLE.
New
Corresponding
New Regulation,
Corresponding
Regulation.
previous regulation.
Remarks.
previous regulation.
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Part 1-Preliminary.
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Citation. Amended to include reference Gardens of Remembrance,
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Remarks,
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New. To cosure proper behaviour in Crematoria, New. To prevent access to the furnaces by the public other than relatives of the deceased.
New. To ensure compliance with managerial orders posted in Government Crematoria.
Part IV-Privare Crematoria.
New. To require the appointment of responsible manapers In the case of Private Crematoria. Modifed to apply only to Private Crematoria and to require monthly extracts of the cremation registers to be sent to the Director of Urban Services for record. In the case of Government Crematoria records of cremations are kept by the Director and available for inspection on application.
New. To prevent human remains being removed from Private Crematoria without proper authority after being received for cremation.
Amended to relate only to inspection of Private Crematoria.
Proviso to 2 To provide for the closure of Private Crematoria, amended to include appeal to Governor in Council by petition against closure orders.
Part P--Gardena of Remembrance.
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7 & 8
9 less the
provisa
the proviso
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6 & 12
A number of expressions have been defined.
Part II-Permits to Cremate,
Reframed to enable applications for cremation permits to be made by the appropriate authorities in the case of dead bodies and still born children abandoned by the relatives.
Reframed to enable the issue to the appropriate authorities of permits to cremate dead bodies and still born children abandoned by the relatives. Opportunity is taken to provide à penalty in the case of persons seeking cremation permits know. ing that the deceased has left directions to the contrary,
Redrafted to make adequate provision for the cancellation and return of cremation permits if nced arises after issue but before the cremation.
Reframed.
Part III-Government Crematoria.
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12
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New.
To vest management of Government Crematoria in the Urban Council, in respect of the urban areas and the Director of Urban Ser- vices in respect of the New Territories.
New. To vest the management.
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New. To provide for control of layout.
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New. To require the delivery of the requisite authority to the officers in charge of Govoriment Crematoria before eremations are requested,
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New. To provide for scattering of ashes.
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New, To prohibit the removal of bodies from Government Crematoris without proper authority after they have been received therein for crema- tion.
New. To provide for control over the placing of monuments, inscriptions, etc.
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New. To ensure that coffins used for cremation: are sufiable for burning.
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New. To ensure that sufficient coffin bearers are provided by the persons requesting the cremalion of the human remains.
Reframed and amended to require payment of a fee for the retention of ashes in the case of Government Crematoria for periods exceeding 3 ntanihs.
New. To ensure proper control over magum:cula, inscriptions, etc., placed in Government Crema- toria.
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New. To ensure proper behaviour.
New.
To ensure compliance with managerial orders posted in the Gardens.
New. To provide for the maintenance of Books of Remembrance.
Part VF-Miscellaneous,
Penalties. There is no change in penalties for the more serious offences but a lesser penalty is imposed in the case of certain additional minor offences created,
To revoke previous regulations.
(Secretariat GR1/4041/47)
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