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Present Policy
5.
The present policy of the Hong Kong
Government is that extensions may be granted only to existing private cemetery organisations.
No such
extension has been granted since the entry into force of the Joint Declaration.
6.
In 1964 the Chinese Permanent Cemeteries Ordinance (Cap. 1112) was enacted which, inter alia, replaced the then non-statutory Board of Management with a statutory board called the Board of Management of the Chinese Permanent Cemeteries. Section 11(a) of the Ordinance provides that the Deeds of Appropriation under which land for the two Chinese Permanent Cemeteries at Aberdeen and Tsuen Wan was occupied should remain valid until such time as they could be replaced by land leases. Accordingly, the Deed of Appropriation for the Chinese Permanent Cemetery at Tsuen Wan was revoked in 1970 and a land lease granted. This has not yet been done in the case of the Aberdeen Chinese Permanent Cemetery, which occupies an area of about 8.2 hectares.
Proposals
7.
The Hong Kong Government now considers that there is no valid reason why private cemetery organisations should necessarily have title to the land which they occupy; Deeds of Appropriation are considered an adequate and appropriate vehicle for
making land available for such purposes. Therefore, the British side propose
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