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Tuesday, May 2, 1972
WORK STARTS ON EXHUPING ILLEGAL GRAVES
In Castle Peak District
The Urban Services Department began work yesterday on exhuming
illegal graves in the area of Tseng Tau Tsuen in the Castle Peak District.
Further exhumation of illegal graves will be carried out as from
May 8 in the general area of Shek Kok Tsui to Tsing Shan Tauen,
A spokesman for the Yuen Long District Office said that advance
notice of the exhumation has been posted on the graves for some months.
He reminded people that it is an offence under the Public Health
and Urban Services Ordinance (Cap 132) to deposit, bury or scatter the ashes
of any human remains other than in a gazetted cemetery.
The spokesman pointed out that offenders are liable to prosecution
and a fine of $1,000 and six months' imprisonment.
The areas in which graves are now being exhumed fall within the
lay-out for Castle Peak New Town. The exhumed remains will be reburied
at Sandy Ridge cemetery.
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