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'RESOLVED that the Public Cemeteries (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1994, the Cremation and Gardens of Remembrance (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1994, the Exhumation (Fees) (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1994 be made under sections 116, 124E and 118(5) of the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance, Cap. 132.'
The Public Cemeteries (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1994, the Cremation and Gardens of Remembrance (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1994, and the Exhumation (Fees) (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1994 be made under the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance now before the Council will, when adopted, increase the fees for cremation, the temporary storage of ashes, the permanent placing of ashes in a columbarium, the placing of memorials and planting of any plant, shrub or tree in Government crematoria and gardens of remembrance, interment in public cemeteries and grant of permission to exhume human remains in the Urban Council area.
The existing fees for such services were last revised in 1992. The purposes of this fee revision are to (a) maintaining as far as possible parity of fees charged in both Council areas (except for burials) and (b) reducing Council's subsidy.
The increases have been carefully considered by the Public Health Select Committee, the Finance Select Committee and the Standing Committee of the Whole Council, and I am satisfied that due weight has been given to all implications of the proposal.
Mr. Chairman, I beg to move.
MR. WONG SHUI-LAI, VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SELECT COMMITTEE (in English):-Mr. Chairman, I second the motion.
The question was put.
The motion was carried unanimously.
ADJOURNMENT-3.20 p.m.
CHAIRMAN (in English):-So this concludes the business of today's meeting. Council stands adjourned until Tuesday, 12 April 1994 at 2.30 p.m. Thank you.
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HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL
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'RESOLVED that the Public Cemeteries (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1994, the Cremation and Gardens of Remembrance (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1994, the Exhumation (Fees) (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1994 be made under sections 116, 124E and 118(5) of the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance, Cap. 132.'
The Public Cemeteries (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1994, the Cremation and Gardens of Remembrance (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1994, and the Exhumation (Fees) (Urban Council) (Amendment) Bylaw 1994 be made under the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance now before the Council will, when adopted, increase the fees for cremation, the temporary storage of ashes, the permanent placing of ashes in a columbarium, the placing of memorials and planting of any plant, shrub or tree in Government crematoria and gardens of remembrance, interment in public cemeteries and grant of permission to exhume human remains in the Urban Council area.
The existing fees for such services were last revised in 1992. The purposes of this fee revision are to (a) maintaining as far as possible parity of fees charged in both Council areas (except for burials) and (b) reducing Council's subsidy.
The increases have been carefully considered by the Public Health Select Committee, the Finance Select Committee and the Standing Committee of the Whole Council, and I am satisfied that due weight has been given to all implications of the proposal.
Mr. Chairman, I beg to move.
MR. WONG SHUI-LAI, VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SELECT COMMITTEE (in English):-Mr. Chairman, I second the motion.
The question was put.
The motion was carried unanimously.
ADJOURNMENT-3.20 p.m.
CHAIRMAN (in English):-So this concludes the business of today's meeting. Council stands adjourned until Tuesday, 12 April 1994 at 2.30 p.m. Thank you.
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