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PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE, 1960.

(No. 30 of 1960).

PRIVATE 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 Private Cemeteries (New Citation and Territories) Regulations, 1960, and shall come into operation on the day commence- appointed for the commencement of the Public Health and Urban

Services Ordinance, 1960.

ment.

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

"Director" means the Director of Urban Services;

"private cemetery" means any cemetery specified in Part IV of the Fifth

Schedule to the Ordinance.

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3. (1) The person entitled to the possession of any private Management. cemetery shall appoint some person, not being a corporation, to be the manager thereof, and shall register with the Director the name and

address of the person who is, for the time being, so appointed.

(2) In the event of any change in the address of the person who

is so appointed, the person entitled to the possession of the cemetery chall, within fourteen days of such change, notify the Director thereof.

4. (1) The manager of every private cemetery shall maintain o Register of register in which shall be recorded, not later than forty-eight hours burials. fter the reception into the cemetery of any human remains, the par- ticulars specified in the Schedule relating to the person whose human Schedule. remains have been received therein and to such remains, together with the signature of the person in charge of the disposal thereof.

(2) Each month, not later than the seventh day thereof, the manager of every private cemetery shall send to the Director a duplicate copy of every entry recorded during the preceding month in such register. 3) The duplicate copy sent to the Director in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (2) shall be open to inspection by any member of the public on application to the Director.

3. Every grave, vault or urn în a private cemetery shall be marked Numbering of

is a permanent manner with a distinguishing number or Chinese graves, etc. directer, which shall correspond with the number or character entered