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NEW TERRITORIES ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 97).

Wo Hop SHEK CEMETERY (ESTABLISHMENT) RULES, 1957.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 of the New Territories Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the following rules--

1. These rules may be cited as the Wo Hop Shek Cemetery Citation. (Establishment) Rules, 1957.

2. All that piece of land, containing 334 acres more or less, Establish- situated at Wo Hop Shek in the New Territories and more ment of

Wo Hop particularly described and shown on a plan thereof deposited at Shek the District Office, Taipo, is set apart for use as a cemetery to be Cemetery. mamed, and is hereby named, the Wo Hop Shek Cemetery.

3. Gazette Notification No. A. 41 published in Supplement Revocation

of G.NA. No. 2 to the Gazette dated 3rd March, 1950, is revoked.

41/60.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

2nd April, 1957-

Clerk of Councils.

Explanatory Note.

(This Note is not part of the rules, but is intended to Indicata their general purport).

The purpose of these rules is to amend the area which was set aside and established as the Wo Hop Shek Cemetery in 1950. Certain portiona of that area could not in practice be used and the new boundaries exclude those portions. A new area is included within the boundaries and the net. result is an increase in the useful cemetery area. It is intended that part of the new area should be set aside as an urn cemetery.

(Secretariat BL12/3751/47)

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