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Certain permits or certificates to

be delivered

at time of

interment.

(Cap. 174)

Times of kurials.

Orsve diaging and

construction of vaults, etc.

Monuments and bead- stones, etc.

(3) (a) The register kept at any public cemetery may be inspected at the cemetery by the public at all times during which such cemetery is open to the public, and the duplicate copies kept in the custody of the Director may be inspected during office hours on application to him.

(6) Any person requiring a certified copy of any entry in any such register may obtain the same from the Director upon payment of a fec of two dollars per entry.

5.

A person in charge of the disposal in a public cemetery of the human remains of any person shall, in relation to such remains, produce to the officer in charge of the cemetery at the time when the intermeot takes place-

(a) in the case of a first interment of the body of any person dying

in the Colony-

(i) a permit of a police officer issued under the provisions of the proviso to subsection (1) of section 16 of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance;

(ii) a certificate of registration of death or of a magistrak's order issued under the provisions of subsection (I) of section 17 of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance; or

(i) in the case of the body of a still-born child, a certificatc. | declaration or magistrate's order issued or made under the provisions of section 18 of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance: or

(b) in any other case, the permission in writing of the Director

authorizing the interment.

6. The Director may prescribe, by notice posted in such manne as he may think fit at any public cemetery or other place, the times during which human remains may be received into the cemetery.

7. (1) No person, other than an officer of the Urban Services | Department, shall, in any public cemetery, dig or fill in any grave without the consent of the officer in charge of the cemetery, and, where such consent is given, the work shall be carried out in accordance with the directions, and subject to the supervision, of such officer.

(2) Save with the consent in writing of the Director and in accord- ance with any conditions or restrictions which he may impose on the grant thereof, no person shall, in any public cemetery, construc! any vault, burial niche or other place of interment, not being a grave.

8. (1) Save with the consent in writing of the Director and in accordance with any conditions or restrictions which he may impose on the grant thereof, no person shall, in any public cemetery, erect a

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monument, other than a headstone or tablet, upon any grave, or make any railing, fence or enclosure round or enclosing any grave space, or plant thereat any tree or shrub.

(2) Where the Director gives his consent to the planting in any public cemetery of any tree or shrub, such consent shall be deemed to have been given subject to the condition that the tree or shrub may be clipped or pruned at the discretion of the Director,

(3) Every grave shall be numbered in a permanent form with a number corresponding to the number entered in the register required to be kept by the provisions of regulation 4, and every monument, head- gone or tablet, and any railing or enclosure marking or enclosing any grave, shall be firmly seated in the ground.

(4) No monument, headstone or tablet shall be so constructed or shaped as to permit of the collection of water in or about it.

(5) No monument, headstone or tablet shall be removed or altered, por shall anything be added thereto, without the consent in writing of the Director.

(6) Any monument, headstone or tablet, and any calling or enclo- sate marking or enclosing any grave, which, by reason of neglect or for any other reason, becomes dilapidated or in need of repair may, at the discretion of the Director, be removed and disposed of in such manner as he may think fit.

9. Every monument, headstone, tablet, railing, fence, enclosure, Government ve or shrub and every other commemorative article whatsoever, notable for whether movable or immovable, which is placed at any grave shall be damage to there at the rish of the owner thereof, and the Government shall not be commemora

loss or

lable for any loss or damage thereto arising from any cause whatsoever. tive articles,

10. No person shall, in any public cemetery--

(a) sell or let for hire, or expose for sale or letting for hire, any article or thing without the consent of the officer in charge of the cemetery:

(b) post, affix or distribute any handbill, card, circular or

advertisement of any kind whatsoever;

(c) hold, promote or take part in any meeting, other than a meel- ing of a religious or commemorative nature relating to the death of any person whose human remains have been buried or otherwise disposed of in the cemetery:

(d) wilfully disturb or interfere with any funeral service or proces-

sion or any religious or commemorative meeting:

Conduct and

behaviour.