Property News · August 15, 2017

New licensing law poses challenge for Hong Kong’s columbarium operators


The recent enactment of the Private Columbaria Ordinance will bring wholesale changes to a traditional business which has not been properly regulated in the past hundred years.
Under the new law, which came into effect on June 30 to enhance consumer protection, all private columbarium operators have to obtain a licence or a waiver from the government to sell or let out new niches.
Columbaria are structures divided into niches for people to store urns containing the ashes of their deceased loved…

Source : South China Morning Post
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