Certain permits and certificates to be produced at time of interment
Version Date:
01/01/2000
In the case of a first interment of encoffined human remains of a person dying in Hong Kong the permittee shall first produce to the Board-
(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).
In any other case the permission in writing of the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene.