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PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE, 1960.

(No. 30 of 1960),

PUBLIC CEMETERIES (NEW TERRITORIES) REGULATIONS, 1960.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 116 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, the Governor in Council

has made the following regulations—

1. These regulations may be cited as the Public Cemeteries Cintion and (New Territories) Regulations. 1960, and shall come into operation commedes- on the day appointed for the commencement of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960.

ment.

2. In these regulations, save where the context otherwise Interpreta- requires-

"body" means the dead body of a human being, but does not include

ashes thereof after cremation:

"Director" means the Director of Urban Services;

tion.

"public cemetery" means any cemetery specified in Part III of the

Fifth Schedule to the Ordinance.

3. The Director may

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(a) direct that any particular public cemetery or any part of any of cemeteries.

public cemetery be set aside or allocated for the reception of human remains of particular persons or of persons belonging to any particular community, race or religion; and

(b) direct that the disposal of the human remains of any particular person, or the human remains of persons belonging to any particular community, race or religion, shall not take place in any particular public cemetery or any particular part of any public cemetery and that disposal thereof shall be effected in any other public cemetery or any other part of a public cemetery.

4. (1) At every public cemetery, in the custody of the officer in Register of charge thereof, there shall be kept a register in the form prescribed in graves, the First Schedule containing particulars of the persons whose human First remains are deposited therein.

(2) Every register required to be kept by the provisions of para- graph (1) shall be kept in duplicate, and, at the end of each month, the duplicate copy of the entries made therein during the preceding month thall be sent to the Director for custody.

Schedule.