Hong Kong Regulations

PRIVATE CEMETERIES REGULATION - SECT 15

Fees

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The manager of a private cemetery shall submit to the Director a table of
fees to be charged by the manager-

   (a)  for the interment of human remains in a grave or vault; and

   (b)  for the deposit of human remains resulting from exhumation or ashes
        after cremation in a grave, vault, niche, ossuary or columbarium.

(2) The Director may approve the table of fees with or without modifications.

(3) The manager of a private cemetery shall cause to be displayed at a
prominent place in the office of the cemetery or at the entrance to the
cemetery the table of fees approved by the Director under subsection

(2).

(4) Subject to subsection (5), no fee, donation or other payment of any kind
shall be solicited, demanded or accepted by, or on behalf of, a person who is-

   (a)  a trustee of, or entitled to the possession of, or

   (b)  the manager of, or

   (c)  employed in or by, a private cemetery, directly or indirectly in
        connexion with-

        (i)    the allocation of, or the interment of human remains in, any
               grave space or vault;

        (ii)   the grant of an application under section 6(7) for interment in
               a grave space;

        (iii)  the grant of permission to scatter ashes after cremation;

        (iv)   the deposit of any human remains after exhumation or ashes
               after cremation in, or the provision for such purpose of, any
               space, vault, niche, ossuary or columbarium, in the
               private cemetery. (L.N. 80 of 1976)

(5) Subsection (4) shall not apply to a fee included in the table of fees
approved by the Director under subsection (2) or to the salary or wages paid
to the manager or an employee of the private cemetery. (L.N. 80 of 1976) (L.N.
204 of 1972; 78 of 1999 s. 7)