TNAG-0354-FCO40-390-Legislation-for-immigration-and-deportation-in-Hong-Kong-1972 — Page 40

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Friday, July 14, 1972

Safegurads against any possible abuse of these powers by an

Immigration Officer are already provided for in the principal Ordinance.

"Furthermore, administrative arrangements can be made by the

Director of Immigration to ensure that cases in which it is considered

necessary to refuse extensions of stay or changes in conditions of stay

will be referred to a senior level within the department for decision,"

he said.

CEMETERY BEING EXPANDED

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The Wo Hop Shek Cemetery near Fan Ling is again being expanded

to provide 6,000 additional urn burial spaces.

It will involve the excavation of about 25,000 yards of earth to

form terraces as well as the provision of retaining walls, drains, turfing

and other ancillary works.

The work is expected to begin in September, and take about six

months to complete.

The additional urn burial spaces are required because of the number

of human remains which have to be exhumed every year.

A spokesman for the Urban Services Department said today that a body

had to be exhumed at the end of a six-year cycle, and then re-buried in urn

spaces.

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