The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department and the Lands Department have posted notices in 20 unapproved cemeteries or golden pagodas in the approved funeral areas in West Da Tau Chau, requesting the persons concerned to stop occupying the land.
The government stated today (14th) that after the expiration of the deadline, there is still an urn that has not been claimed. Therefore, a relocation operation was launched today to demolish the urn and the remains will be relocated to the Shaling Cemetery.
The government stated that starting from 2016, a pilot management plan will be implemented in individual approved funeral areas, including the establishment of boundary markings for approved funeral areas, record measurements, setting limits on the size of the cemetery, and the available space in the funeral areas, and delimiting the scope of newly applied cemeteries. To ensure that the burial site is located in the funeral area.
According to the government, the pilot scheme has been extended to 15 approved funeral and interment districts, covering 9 administrative areas in the New Territories.
The government continued that it reviewed the information obtained from the trial plan earlier and decided to follow up on illegal funerals in the funeral area. Relevant departments will enforce the law in stages. First, they will deal with illegal funerals in Da Tau Chau, Sai Kung under the first phase of the trial plan. For funeral and interment cases, further actions will be taken before the Chung Yeung Festival to handle illegal funeral and interment cases in the sanmenzai approved funeral area in Tai Po and the Jijing approved funeral area.
There is still an unclaimed urn to be moved
The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department and the Lands Department then posted announcements and notices on 20 unapproved cemeteries or golden pagodas in Da Tau Chau approved funeral areas on March 29 this year, requesting the people concerned to stop occupying the government before April 29 this year. Land and contact the relevant departments, otherwise the relevant remains will be relocated to the Shaling Cemetery.
The government stated that after the expiration of the deadline, there is still an unclaimed urn. The Home Affairs Department, the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department, and the Lands Department launched a relocation operation today to demolish the urn and plan to relocate the remains. Sand Ridge Cemetery.
A government spokesperson emphasized that under the Land (Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance, anyone who occupies government land without permission and fails to comply with the notice required by the Ordinance to stop occupying the land is a crime.
Any property or structure on occupied government land can be demolished and removed by the government, and the occupier may be prosecuted.
In addition, according to the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance, it is illegal to bury human remains without the written permission of the competent authority. Offenders may be subject to criminal prosecution and the remains in the graves concerned will also be removed.
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