Hong Kong Regulations

PRIVATE CEMETERIES REGULATION - SECT 6

Allocation and size of grave spaces

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The manager of a private cemetery shall allocate a grave space only for
the immediate interment of human remains.

(2) If an interment does not take place within 1 month from the date of
allocation of the grave space, the manager shall cancel the allocation and
shall refund any fees which may have been paid for the interment.

(3) Save as provided in subsection (7), no interment shall take place in an
allocated grave space other than the interment for which the grave space was
allocated under subsection (1). (78 of 1999 s. 7)

(4) A grave for the interment of human remains, other than those resulting
from exhumation or ashes after cremation, shall not exceed an area of 900 x
2400 mm. (L.N. 80 of 1976; L.N. 89 of 1979)

(5) A grave for the reburial of human remains after exhumation or for the
interment of ashes after cremation shall not exceed an area of 900 x 900 mm,
except in any case to which section 121 of the Ordinance applies. (L.N. 80 of
1976; L.N. 89 of 1979)

(6) Not more than one grave space shall be allocated for the interment of one
set of human remains.

(7) Subject to the provisions of section 9(1), several interments may be
allowed in one grave on application by the person to whom a grave space has
been allocated. (L.N. 80 of 1976; 78 of 1999 s. 7)

(8) Subsections (4) and (5) shall not apply to a grave in a grave space where
the grave space was duly reserved or set aside for a person prior to 1 January
1973 in accordance with any rules, regulations or other document governing the
management of the cemetery and by a person duly authorized to so reserve or
set aside the grave space. (L.N. 80 of 1976; 78 of 1999 s. 7) (L.N. 204 of
1972)