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170.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 15, 1914.

No. 190.

Regulations made by the Governor-in-Council under Section 5 of the Cremation Ordinance, 1914, (Ordinance No. 5 of 1914), on the 14th day of May, 1914.

A.

Maintenance and Inspection of Crematoria.

1. Every crematorium shall be

(a.) maintained in good working order;

(b.) provided with a sufficient number of attendants; and

(c.) kept constantly in a cleanly and orderly condition:

Provided that any crematorium may be closed by order of the Sanitary Board if not less than one month's notice be given by advertisement in the Government Gazette and by written notice fixed at the entrance to the crematorium.

The Head of the Sanitary Department shall give notice in writing to the Colonial Secretary of the opening or closing of any crematorium..

2. Every crematorium shall be open to inspection at any reasonable time by any officer authorized by the Governor for that purpose, or by any member of the Sanitary Board or by any officer of the Sanitary Department who may be directed by the Head of the Department to make such inspections.

B.

Conditions under which cremations

may

take place.

3. No cremation shall take place except in a crematorium the opening of which has been authorized in writing by the Sanitary Board, and approved by the Governor-in-Council. 4. It shall not be lawful to cremate the remains of any person who is known to have left a written direction to the contrary.

5. It shall not be lawful to cremate human remains which have not been identified. 6. Any act which is authorized or required by Part B of these Regulations to be done by the Head of the Sanitary Department may be done by any officer of the Sanitary Depart- ment appointed by him in writing for that purpose.

7. No cremation shall be allowed without a permit in writing signed by the Head of the Sanitary Department.

8. No permit for cremation shall be issued by the Head of the Sanitary Department unless application therefor be made in the Form 1 in the Schedule by an executor or by the nearest surviving relative in Hongkong of the deceased or by the duly authorized attorney or agent in Hongkong of either of them: Provided that if there be no executor of relative of the deceased or attorney or agent of either of them in Hongkong and a written direction signed by the deceased in his lifetime requesting the cremation of his remains be produced to the Head of the Sanitary Department the Head of the Sanitary Department may (subject to the other provisions of these Regulations) issue a cremation permit.

Registration

No. 16,

9. No permit for cremation shall be issued by the Head of the Sanitary Department unless either

(a.) under Sub-section 2 of Section 17 of the Births and Deaths Regis- Births and

tration Ordinance, 1896, a certificate of the cause of death has Deaths been given by a registered Medical Practitioner, who has attended ordinance, the deceased during his last illness, and a further certificate in the 1896, Form Form 2 in the Schedule by another registered Medical Practitioner registered under the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, whose name also appears in "the Medical Register" then most recently published under the Medical Act, 1858, of the Imperial Parliament, and it shall appear from both of such certificates that the death was not due to poison or to violence or to any illegal operation or to privation or neglect;

or

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