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(3) Every such objection together with any evidence that may be tendered by the objector and the applicant or their representatives shall be considered by the Urban Council before deciding whether or not to grant the application.

(4) Any such decision shall be subject to appeal to the Governor in Council by the applicant or any such objector.

5. The Schedule to the Cremation Ordinance, 1934, is Amendment amended by the addition of the following paragraph at the end thereof:

4. The ground, to be known as Lot No. 4693, at Soo- kunpoo which has been placed at the disposal of the Hindu Association, for the erection of a crematorium.

of Ordinance No. 40 of 1934. Schedule,

Objects and Reasons.

1. Section 4 of the principal Ordinance, No. 40 of 1934, provided that no place or building shall be used as a cremato- rium other than and except (1) Government crematoria, (2) the Crematoria named in the Schedule, (3) crematoria hereafter established with the consent of the Governor notified in the Gazette and (4) buildings or places in respect of which special permission for the use of the same for burning human remains had been granted by the Director of Medical Services.

2. Clause 2 of this Bill amends the fourth exception and adds a new paragraph the joint effect of which is to provide for the permission of the Urban Council in parts of the Colony other than the New Territories.

3. Clause 3 of the Bill makes a consequential amendment in section 5 of the principal Ordinance.

4. Section 6 of the principal Ordinance provided that no crematorium should be constructed within 200 yards of a dwelling house without the consent in writing of the owner, lessee and occupier of such house, or within 50 yards of a public highway without the consent of the Governor in Council, or in the consecrated part of any burial ground.

5. Clause 4 of the Bill repeals this provision but sub- stitutes other provisions for hearing objections by the Urban Council, with an appeal to the Governor in Council, where a proposed crematorium is to be situate within 200 yards of a dwelling house or 50 yards of a public highway.

6. Clause 5 of the Bill adds to the Schedule of exempted crematoria the ground set apart in Sookunpoo for the Hindu Association for the erection of a crematorium.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

October, 1936.