Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemeteries Rules
[28 January 1977]
(Format changes—E.R. 1 of 2013)
These rules may be cited as the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemeteries Rules.
In these rules—
cemetery (墳場) means any Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery specified in Part 4A of the Fifth Schedule to the Ordinance.No person shall, without the consent in writing of The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, permit any dog or other animal to enter any cemetery.
No person shall in any cemetery—
sell or let for hire, or expose for sale or letting for hire, any article or thing;
post, affix or distribute any handbill, card, circular or advertisement of any kind whatsoever;
hold, promote or take part in any public meeting, other than a meeting of a religious or commemorative nature relating to the death of any person whose human remains have been buried or otherwise disposed of in that cemetery;
wilfully disturb or interfere with any funeral service or procession or any religious or commemorative meeting;
discharge any fire-arm, except in the proper performance of a military funeral or commemorative meeting;
wilfully or carelessly deface, injure, soil or defile any wall or fence in or enclosing the cemetery, or any part thereof, or any grave, barrier, railing, post, seat, boundary stone, monument, building, headstone, tablet, ornament, tree, shrub, or ornamental plant;
climb any wall or fence in or enclosing the cemetery, or any part thereof, or any tree, barrier, railing, pole, monument, headstone, tablet or ornament; or
behave in a noisy or unseemly manner.