### Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance 《公眾衞生及市政條例》

111C. Declaration of street name
(1) Notwithstanding section 111B, the Authority, by declaration in the Gazette, may—
(a) assign a name to a street that has not been named; or
(b) change the name of a street that has been named.
(2) The Authority shall, not less than 30 days prior to a declaration under subsection (1)(b), give notice of its intention to change the street name.
(3) A notice under subsection (2) shall—
(a) contain a brief description of the proposal to change the street name;
(b) specify an address for service of objections to the proposal;
(c) specify the time within which objections may be lodged; and
(d) be published—
(i) in the Gazette; and
(ii) by posting it in both the English and Chinese languages in a prominent place in or near the street or part of the street which will be affected by the proposed declaration.
(4) A person may, within 30 days of the date of publication in the Gazette of the notice under subsection (2), object, in writing to the Authority, against the proposed declaration under subsection (1)(b).
(5) The Authority shall consider an objection under subsection (4) and shall, before a declaration is made under subsection (1)(b), serve notice of its decision, setting out reasons for its decision, upon the person who made an objection.
(6) A person on whom a notice under subsection (5) is served may, within 30 days of the date of the notice, appeal to the Municipal Services Appeals Board against the decision of the Authority. (Replaced 78 of 1999 s. 7)

111D. Penalty for marking or displaying other street name
Where the Authority has declared a street name under section 111C(1), any person who marks or displays any other street name other than that street name so declared on a building or erection in the street commits an offence.

112. Restriction upon the keeping of dead bodies in domestic premises
(1) Any person who keeps, or causes or permits to be kept, for a longer period than 48 hours the dead body of any person in premises used for the purpose of human habitation shall, unless such dead body is encoffined in a hermetically sealed coffin, be guilty of an offence.
(2) Any person who, without the permission in writing of the Authority, keeps, or causes or permits to be kept, for a longer period than 7 days (inclusive of the period of 48 hours referred to in subsection (1)) any encoffined dead body, notwithstanding that the coffin be hermetically sealed, in any premises used for the purpose of human habitation shall be guilty of an offence.

### Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance 《公眾衞生及市政條例》

112A. Authority may order human remains to be buried or cremated
(1) The Authority may—
(a) subject to the provisions of section 16(1) of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance (Cap. 174), cause a notice in the form of Form E specified in the Seventh Schedule to be served on a person who has the right to effect the disposal of any human remains, requiring him to cause them to be lawfully buried or cremated within such period as may be specified in the notice; and
(b) if the human remains referred to in the notice are not lawfully buried or cremated within the period specified in the notice, take possession of the human remains and arrange for their disposal in any manner it may think fit.
(2) The Authority may take possession of any human remains and arrange for their disposal in any manner it may think fit, if it is satisfied that—
(a) no person who has the right to dispose of the human remains is in Hong Kong or can be readily ascertained or found; or (Amended 10 of 1986 s. 24)
(b) every person who has the right to dispose of the human remains is under disability.
(3) Any person who—
(a) fails to comply with a notice served on him under subsection (1)(a); or
(b) after the expiration of any period specified in a notice under subsection (1)(a), has in his possession without the written permission of the Authority any human remains to which the notice relates,
shall be guilty of an offence.
(4) For the purposes of this section, human remains (人類遺骸) does not include skeletal remains.
(5) Nothing in this section shall derogate from any provision in any enactment which permits the use of any human remains or the removal and use of part of any human remains for therapeutic purposes or for purposes of medical education or research.
(Added 48 of 1969 s. 7)

### Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance 《公眾衞生及市政條例》

113. Public and private cemeteries
(1) The places specified in Part 1 of the Fifth Schedule shall be places set apart for use as public cemeteries. (Amended 18 of 2014 s. 157)
(2) The places specified in Part 2 of the Fifth Schedule shall be places set apart for use as private cemeteries. (Amended 18 of 2014 s. 157)
(2AA) A columbarium, as defined by section 113A(1), that is under the management and control of a person specified in Part 2A of the Fifth Schedule is a private cemetery. (Added 8 of 2017 s. 124)
(2A) The places specified in Part 4A of the Fifth Schedule shall be places set apart for use by The Commonwealth War Graves Commission as Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemeteries. (Added 69 of 1976 s. 2. Amended 12 of 1994 s. 3)
(3) The Chief Executive in Council may by order amend, or add any cemetery to or delete any cemetery from, the Fifth Schedule (except its Part 2A). (Amended 59 of 2000 s. 3; 8 of 2017 s. 124)
(4) The Chief Executive in Council may by order amend, or add a person to, or delete a person from, Part 2A of the Fifth Schedule. (Added 8 of 2017 s. 124)
(Amended E.R. 1 of 2013)