HONG KONG
No. 35 or 1964.
I assent.
-Governor.
3rd December, 1964.
An Ordinance to give statutory recognition to and to regulate the provision of permanent cemeteries for persons of Chinese race permanently resident in the Colony and to provide for the proper maintenance and administration thereof, and for purposes com- nected therewith.
WHEREAS→
[4th December, 1964.]
(a) by three deeds of appropriation dated respectively the 16th June, 1913, the 22nd August, 1929 and the 31st May, 1963 (hereinafter referred to as the Deeds of Appropriation) certain parcels of land were thereby appropriated for use as cemeteries for persons of Chinese race who were permanent residents of the Colony although the title to the said land remained vested in the Crown;
(b) the cost of laying out the land the subject of the said Deed of Appropriation dated the 16th June, 1913, was met by subscription and by the said Deed it was provided that the application of the sums so raised, and the duty of managing the cemetery the subject thereof, be entrusted to a Board of
Preamble.