Amendment of
First Schedule.
3. The First Schedule to the principal regulations is amended in Part I by inserting the following after "Cape Coltirison'
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
28th January 1969.
"Wo Hop
Clerk of Councils.
Explanatory Note.
(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport).
Regulation 2 amends regulation 12 of the principal regulations so as to provide that the ashes of deceased persons who were residents of Hong Kong at the time of death and wete cremated in a Government crematorium within three months of death and also the ashes of deceased persons who were cremated outside Hong Kong but were resident in Hong Kong for at Icast ten of the twenty years preceding death may be deposited in a Govern- meal crematorium. The Urban Council is given a discretion to allow the deposit of ashes of deceased persons who were cremated outside Hong Kong but were resident in Hong Kong for less than ten of the twenty years preceding death,
Regulation 3 amends Part 1 of the First Schedule of the principal regulations so as to provide that the cremation facilities at the Wo Hap Shek cemetery shall be a Government crematorium for the purposes of the principal regulations.
(Secretariat GR 1/4041/47)
FUGITIVE OFFENDERS ACT 1967.
FUGITIVE OFFENDERS ACT 1967 (COMMENCEMENT) ORDER 1969.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 22 of the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967 (as modified and adapted by the Fugitive Offenders (Hong Kong) Order 1967), the Governor, with the approval of the Secretary of State, has made the following order-
1. This order may be cited as the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967 (Commencement) Order 1969.
2. In relation to any country to which the Governor, with the approval of the Secretary of State, is empowered by paragraph (c) of section 2(2) of the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967 (definition of "United Kingdom dependency") to apply the said section 2(2), the said Act shall come ime force on 1st February 1969 for the pur- poses of all the provisions of the Act other than-
(a) the purposes of section 2 thereof; and
(b) the purposes of any other provision thereof,
for which purposes, subject to paragraph 3 of the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967 (Commencement) Order 1968, the said Act came into force on 9th February 1968 and 23rd February 1962, respectively.
By Command,
(L.N. 12/58)
Citation.
Commence- ment.
EN. 5/4)
5
Acting Colonial Secretary.
23rd January 1969.
Explanatory Note.
(This Nate is not part of the order, but is intended to indicate its general purport),
This order provides that the Fugitive Offenders Act 1967 shall come inta force on 1st February 1969 for the purposes of all the provisions thereof which have not sooner come into force, so far as they relate to countries and territories outside Her Majesty's dominions in which She has jurisdiction, or over which She extends protection, in right of Her Govern- ment in the United Kingdom
(Secretariat CR. 10/2716/47)