Hong Kong Regulations

PRIVATE CEMETERIES REGULATION - SECT 13

Offences and penalties

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Any person who-

   (a)  for the purpose of obtaining the permission of the Director for the
        interment in a private cemetery of the human remains of any person,
        makes any declaration or statement which he knows, or has reason to
        believe, to be false in a material particular;

   (b)  contravenes any of the provisions of section 3(1), (2) or (3),
        section 4(1) or (2), section 5(1), (2) or (4), section 6(1) to (6),
        section 9 or 10, section 11(1) or (2) or section 15(1), (3) or (4),
        (L.N. 80 of 1976) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on
        summary conviction to a fine at level 2 and, where the offence is a
        continuing offence, shall be liable in addition to a fine of $100 for
        each day during which it is proved to the satisfaction of the court
        that the offence has continued. (L.N. 204 of 1972; L.N. 304 of 1987)

(2) In the event of any contravention of the provisions of section  8 , the
manager of the cemetery shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine at level 2. (L.N. 204 of 1972; L.N. 80 of 1976;
L.N. 304 of 1987) (L.N. 177 of 1996; 78 of 1999 s. 7)