1964_PUBLIC_CEMETERIES_(URBAN_COUNCIL)_BY-LAWS — Page 6

BK 6

[Subsidiary]

Government not to be liable for loss or damage to commemorative articles.

Conduct and behaviour.

CAP. 132] Public Cemeteries (Urban Council) By-laws [1986 Ed.

(2) The power in paragraph (1) shall not be exercised by the Director unless he has by notice in writing required the addressee of the notice either to modify the grave covering, monument, headstone or tablet so that it conforms with these by-laws, or to remove and dispose of the same, and the modification or removal has not been carried out within such reasonable time as may be allowed therefor in the notice.

(3) The addressee of a notice under paragraph (2) shall be the next of kin named in the entry in the register, kept under by-law 4, relating to any deceased person whose remains have been interred in the grave upon which the grave covering, monument, headstone or tablet has been constructed, erected or altered, and the said notice shall be sent by post to the addressee at the address shown in the register.

(4) The notice shall also be posted in some conspicuous place on the grave covering, monument, headstone or tablet.

(5) Any person modifying, removing or disposing of a grave covering, monument, headstone or tablet pursuant to a notice under paragraph (2) shall carry out the work in accordance with the directions, and subject to the supervision, of an officer of the Urban Services Department.

(6) If no next of kin is named in the register referred to in paragraph (3), the Director may exercise the power in paragraph (1) without giving notice under paragraph (2).

9. Every monument, headstone, tablet, railing, fence, enclosure, tree or shrub and every other commemorative article whatsoever, whether movable or immovable, which is placed at any grave shall be there at the risk of the owner thereof, and the Government shall not be liable for any loss or damage thereto arising from any cause whatsoever.

10. [Revoked, L.N. 292/77]

11. No person shall, in any public cemetery—

(a) sell or let for hire, or expose for sale or letting for hire, any article or thing without the consent of the Director;

(b) post, affix or distribute any handbill, card, circular or advertisement of any kind whatsoever;

(c) hold, promote or take part in any public meeting, other than a meeting of a religious or commemorative nature relating to the death of any person whose human remains have been buried or otherwise disposed of in the cemetery;

(d) wilfully disturb or interfere with any funeral service or procession or any religious or commemorative meetings;

(e) discharge any firearm, except in the proper performance of a military funeral;