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Friday, August 18, 1972
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CEMETERIES REGULATIONS
New and amended regulations to improve the administration of private
cemeteries in the New Territories and to make the management of private and
public cemeteries more uniform, are published in today's Government Gazette,
They are the Private Cemeteries (New Territories) (Amendment) Regulations
1972, the Public Cemeteries (New Territories) (Amendment) Regulations 1972 and the
Exhumation (Fees) (New Territories) Regulations 1972.
Those dealing with private cemeteries require the managers to keep
the cemetery clean and tidy, and to make rules to be approved for its proper
management and control.
The managers must inform the Director of Urban Services every three
months the number of grave spaces available, and submit to him for approval a
set of fees for interments and deposits of human remains.
The regulations on public cemeteries increase the interment fee from
$1 to $10, but provide that no fee will be payable in respect of the interment
The cost of exhuming human remains will be increased to $5.
People selling articles, letting them for hire or exposing them for
of a pauper.
sale in a cemetery must first obtain the consent of the Director.
to $1,000.
In general, fines for contravening the regulations have been increased
A Government spokesman said all these regulations will come into operation
on a date to be appointed by the Governor in Council.
He added that by-laws dealing with private cemeteries in urban areas
had been approved in principle by the relevant Select Committee of the Urban
Council and would be presented later before the full Council.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.