Hong Kong Regulations

PRIVATE CEMETERIES REGULATION - SECT 5

Register of burials

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The manager of every private cemetery shall maintain a register in which
shall be recorded, not later than 48 hours after the reception into the
cemetery of any human remains, the particulars specified in the Schedule
relating to the person whose human remains have been received therein and to
such remains, together with the signature of the person in charge of the
disposal thereof.

(2) Each month, not later than the 7th day thereof, the manager of every
private cemetery shall send to the Director a duplicate copy of every entry
recorded during the preceding month in such register.

(3) The duplicate copy sent to the Director in accordance with the provisions
of subsection (2) shall be open to inspection by any member of the public on
application to the Director. (78 of 1999 s. 7)

(4) On 1 April 1973 and thereafter at the expiration of each period of 3
months, the manager of a private cemetery shall forward to the Director a
return showing the number of grave spaces, vaults and niches available for
allocation. (L.N. 204 of 1972; 78 of 1999 s. 7)