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Cemeteries

net aside

reinter-

for

ment.

Plan of cemetery.

Register to be kept.

Tees.

Only one corpse la grave.

Notice of

inter

ment.

Graves not to be re-opened.

Require. ments for graves.

5.

The District Commissioner may direct that any cemetery or part thereof be set apart for reinterment after exhumation and for the storage of the remains in pots or urns.

6. A plan of each cemetery showing the various sections shall be on view at or near the cemetery and at the offices of the District Officer of that district.

T. A register shall be kept in the Chinese language at or near each cemetery and the date, name, sex, and age of each person shall be entered therein against the number of the grave in which the corpse is interred.

8. The following fees shall be charged in cemeteries and urn cemeteries-

In respect of each interment

$1.00.

In respect of each permit for exhumation of body

1.00.

9. Only one corpse shall be placed in each grave: Provided that in the case of children under the age of 10 years, two corpses may be placed in a grave.

10. Not less than two hours' notice shall be given to the person in charge of the cemetery of the intention to inter a corpse and of the hour at which such interment is to take place.

11. Except on an order of a magistrate, no grave may be re-opened after the interment of a corpse therein without the written permission of the District Commissioner, nor (except where no charge has been made for the grave space), without the written consent of the next-of-kin of the person buried, if such next-of-kin can be found.

12. (1) Every grave shall be dug to a depth of not less than 5 feet except for the graves of children under the age of to years, which shall be not less than 4 feet in depth.

(2) No grave shall occupy a space exceeding 7 feet in length and 2 feet 6 inches in width.

(3) Every grave shall be filled in to the satisfaction of the District Commissioner.

ments and

13. No monument or enclosure of land occupying an area Monu- exceeding the permitted surface area of the grave or urn space enclosures, shall be erected or made over upon or around any grave or urn space.

authorized

14. No person shall, without the written permission of the Burial District Commissioner, bury any dead body or deposit any um outside containing remains elsewhere than in an authorized cemetery or cemetery, urn cemetery which has not been closed.

15. (1) Subject to the provisions of these rules no person Exhuma- shall, without the written permission of the District Commissioner tion of

bodies. exhume any body or remains which have been buried in any place or remove the remains from any urn which has been deposited in any place.

(2) Such written permission shall be granted only to the legal personal representative or next-of-kin, of their duly authorized agent, of the person whose body or remains are concerned: Provided that the District Commissioner may grant permission for the removal of any body or remains from any place other than an authorized cemetery to a person who, in his opinion, has a sufficient interest in the disposal of the said body or remains.

(3) In each case the permission may include such conditions as the District Commissioner may think necessary.

(4) Copies of such permissions shall be retained and open to inspection.

Commis-

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16. (1) The District Commissioner may, where he shall District deem it expedient, direct the removal of any body or remains sioner to from any grave or urn, together with such grave or urn, in such direct manner as he may think it: Provided that no such direction of body. shall be made for the removal from an authorized cemetery or urn cemetery until 6 months" notice has been given by notification in the Gazette.

(2) Where the District Commissioner directs the removal from any place other than an authorized cemetery or urn cemetery he shall take such steps, if any, as he may think necessary for giving notice to persons interested in the disposal of the body

or remains.