Hong Kong Regulations

PRIVATE CEMETERIES REGULATION - SECT 7

Certain permits or certificates to be produced at time of interment

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

A person in charge of the disposal in a private cemetery of the human remains
of any person shall, in relation to such remains, produce to the manager of
the cemetery at the time when the interment takes place-

   (a)  in the case of a first interment of the body of a person dying in Hong
        Kong- (10 of 1986 s. 32(2))

        (i)    a permit of a police officer issued under the provisions of the
               proviso to section 16(1) of the
               Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance ( Cap 174);

        (ii)   a certificate of registration of death or of a coroner's order
               issued under the provisions of section 17(1) of the
               Births and Deaths  Registration Ordinance ( Cap 174); or

        (iii)  in the case of the body of a still-born child, a certificate,
               declaration or coroner's order issued or made under the
               provisions of section 18 of the
               Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance ( Cap 174); or

   (b)  in any other case, the permission in writing of the Director
        authorizing the interment. (78 of 1999 s. 7) (L.N. 204 of 1972)