Hong Kong Regulations

PRIVATE CEMETERIES REGULATION - SECT 3

Management

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The person entitled to the possession of any private cemetery shall
appoint some person, not being a corporation, to be the manager thereof, and
shall register with the Director the name and address of the person who is,
for the time being, so appointed.

(2) In the event of any change in the address of the person who is so
appointed, the person entitled to the possession of the cemetery shall, within
14 days of such change, notify the Director thereof.

(3) The manager so appointed shall-

   (a)  maintain the cemetery at all times in a clean and tidy condition;

   (b)  prevent the accumulation in the cemetery of any water likely to
        contain larvae or pupae of mosquitoes; and

   (c)  submit to the Director rules providing for the management and control
        of the cemetery. (L.N. 80 of 1976)

(4) The Director may approve the rules with or without modifications.

(78 of 1999 s. 7)