Hong Kong Regulations

CHINESE PERMANENT CEMETERIES RULES - RULE 21A

Power of Board to designate niche to be family niche

(1) The Board may designate any niche in a columbarium to be a family niche at
the time of the allocation of such niche.

(2) A family niche may be allocated upon payment of the fee prescribed for
such allocation and the Board may allocate more than one family niche to the
same permittee.

(3) A family niche allocated to a permittee shall be used immediately for the
deposit of cremated human ashes. In the case where more than one family niche
have been allocated at any one time to a permittee, at least one of those
family niches allocated shall be used immediately for the deposit of cremated
human ashes.

(4) Each family niche may be used for the deposit of up to four sets of
cremated human ashes. Provided always that the second (or subsequent) set of
cremated human ashes deposited in a family niche shall be those of a
close relative of the deceased first deposited in that niche having the same
family surname. For the purpose of this paragraph, a married woman (unless
divorced from her husband) shall be deemed to have her husband's family
surname. (L.N. 197 of 1986)