Hong Kong Regulations

PRIVATE CEMETERIES REGULATION - SECT 11

Burial in vaults

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) No person shall deposit any human remains in a vault in a private cemetery
unless such remains are encoffined: Provided that skeletal remains or ashes
after cremation may be enclosed in an urn.

(2) Every person who deposits any human remains in a vault shall, within 24
hours after the deposit in the vault of the coffin containing such remains,
cause the coffin to be wholly and permanently embedded in and covered with a
layer of good cement concrete, not less than 150 mm in thickness, or to be
wholly and permanently enclosed in a separate cell or receptacle which shall
be constructed of slate or stone flagging, not less than 50 mm in thickness
and properly jointed in cement, or of good brickwork in cement and in such a
manner as to prevent, so far as practicable, the escape of any noxious gas
from the interior of the cell or receptacle. (L.N. 89 of 1979)

(3) The provisions of subsection (2) shall not apply to any skeletal remains
or ashes after cremation which are enclosed in an urn.

(78 of 1999 s. 7)