Hong Kong Regulations

CHINESE PERMANENT CEMETERIES RULES - RULE 8

Certain permits and certificates to be produced at time of interment

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

In the case of a first interment of encoffined human remains of a person dying
in Hong Kong the permittee shall first produce to the Board-

        (i)    a permit of a police officer issued under the provisions of the
               proviso to section 16(1) of the
               Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance ( Cap 174);

        (ii)   a certificate of registration of death or of a coroner's order
               issued under the provisions of section 17(1) of the
               Births and Deaths  Registration Ordinance ( Cap 174); or

        (iii)  in the case of the body of a still-born child, a certificate,
               declaration or coroner's order issued or made under the
               provisions of section 18 of the
               Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance ( Cap 174). In any
               other case the permission in writing of the Director of Food
               and Environmental Hygiene. (L.N. 462 of 1991; 78 of 1999 s. 7)