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Wednesday, July 19, 1972
BETTER CONTROL OVER CEMETERIES
Experience has shown a need to amend certain existing regulations
in order to improve the administration of private cemeteries in the New
Territories and to make the management of private and public cemeteries
more uniform.
This was stated today by the Acting Director of Urban Services,
the Hon. A.P. Richardson, in the Legislative Council while moving the Becond reading of the Public Health and Urban Services (Amendment) (No.3)
Bill 1972.
The Bill, he said, seeks to amend the principal ordinance to
enlarge the regulation-making powers of the authority relating to private
cemeteries.
"It will enable the authority to make regulations prescribing,
or providing for, the depth and size of graves and vaults, burial fees
and other matters which it may consider necessary for the proper regulation
and control of both private and public cemeteries in the public interest."
He said another amendment enables the authority to charge for
permission granted under the principal ordinance to exhume human remains
from any cemetery or from places outside authorised cemeteries.
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