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The unclaimed remains of Sanmenzai and Jijing funeral areas in Jinta Pagong will be relocated to Shaling

2022-01-05T11:07:57.458Z


The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department and the Lands Department earlier discovered illegal funerals on the hillside in the San Mun Tsai Recognized Funeral Area (TP/E7) and the Jijing Recognized Funeral Area (TP/E13) in Tai Po. Today (5th), the Director of Home Affairs Sign


The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department and the Lands Department earlier discovered illegal funerals on the hillside in the San Mun Tsai Recognized Funeral Area (TP/E7) and the Jijing Recognized Funeral Area (TP/E13) in Tai Po. Today (5th), the Director of Home Affairs The Department took enforcement action. It is estimated that it will take about 3 days to remove 28 illegal tombs/jinta houses/jintas and relocate the remains to Shaling Cemetery.


On September 23 last year, the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department and the Lands Department found 32 unapproved graves/jinta houses/jintas in the sanmenzai and shajijing approved funeral areas to post notices and notices, requesting the relevant parties to post announcements and notices in October last year. Stop occupying government land before the 24th, and contact relevant government departments, otherwise the relevant remains will be relocated to the Shaling Cemetery.

After the expiration of the deadline, there were still 28 unclaimed cases, and the burial operation started today.

The government stated that since 2016, a pilot management plan has been implemented in individual approved funeral areas, and corresponding improvement measures have been implemented in accordance with the actual conditions of each funeral area, including the erection of boundary markings for approved funeral areas, record measurements, establishment of cemetery size limits, and The scope of the newly applied cemetery shall be defined in the available announcement rooms in the approved funeral and burial area to ensure that the burial sites are all located in the funeral and burial area. The trial plan has been extended to 15 approved funeral and burial areas, covering 9 administrative areas in the New Territories.

After reviewing the information obtained from the pilot project earlier, the government decided to follow up the situation of illegal funerals in the funeral area in stages.

This operation is the second operation since the first management operation in the approved funeral area (SK/52) in Da Tau Chau, Sai Kung in July last year.

The government stated that it will continue to follow up, including plans to post announcements and notices in other unapproved tombs/jinta huts/jintas before the Ching Ming Festival.

A government spokesperson emphasized that, according to the Land (Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Chapter 28), anyone who occupies government land without the permission of the authority and ceases to occupy the land without complying with the notice stipulated in the ordinance is considered to be crime.

Any property or structures 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 (Chapter 132), it is illegal to bury human remains without the written permission of the competent authority. Offenders can be prosecuted and the remains in the graves will also be removed.

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