An order to remove and dispose of human remains buried in 2016 in six public cemeteries was gazetted today.

The Food & Environmental Hygiene Department made the order under section 119A of the Public Health & Municipal Services Ordinance.

The six cemeteries concerned are the coffin sections of Wo Hop Shek Cemetery in Fanling, Cheung Chau Cemetery, Tai O Cemetery and Lai Chi Yuen Cemetery on Lantau as well as the "T" Section of Sandy Ridge Cemetery and the Government Urn Section of Sandy Ridge Urn Cemetery in Lo Wu.

People who wish to arrange for private exhumation and disposal of the human remains subject to removal should apply in person to the department’s Cemeteries & Crematoria Office on the Upper Ground Floor, 6 Cheong Hang Road, Hung Hom, Kowloon by August 30.

Any remains buried in the six cemeteries not exhumed will be cremated at a government crematorium. The ashes will be buried at Sandy Ridge Urn Cemetery or other cemeteries as the Director of Food & Environmental Hygiene may decide.

For enquiries, call 2365 5321 or 2364 5364.