Hong Kong Regulations

CHINESE PERMANENT CEMETERIES RULES - RULE 17

Burial in urn of skeletal or cremated remains

(1) After exhumation an ordinary lot or a subscriber lot may may be used for
the immediate reburial in urn of the skeletal or cremated remains.

(2) Skeletal or cremated remains of other relatives, in urn, whether
originally buried in a cemetery, ossuary or columbarium managed by the Board
or otherwise, may be buried in the same lot.

(3) Where one or more urn burials have already taken place a subsequent coffin
interment may be permitted with the Board's special consent in writing, where
the permittee is able to prove that his nominee for the new interment and each
of the persons whose remains are buried therein in urn are close relatives of
the first deceased buried in the lot.