Lai Chi Yuen Columbarium (situated at Mui Wo, Lantau Island), Lamma Columbarium and Peng Chau Columbarium of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) provides extendable niches, which are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis to indigenous villagers of the Islands District, or bona fide residents of Islands District for a "continuous residing period" of not less than seven years or their minor children. "Continuous residing period" means the period that the deceased continuously resided on the island concerned right before his/her death.
Extendable standard niches can accommodate at least 2 sets of cremated ashes, and extendable large niches may hold at least 3 sets of cremated ashes (only available for Lamma Columbarium and Peng Chau Columbarium). The initial interment period is 20 years and can be extended at 10-year intervals thereafter upon payment of the prevailing prescribed fee. There is no limit on the numbers of renewal of interment period. The application details are as follows:
Application Form (FEHB 136)
The application form can be obtained through the following methods:
- download from the FEHD website (www.fehd.gov.hk); or
- by fax (2591 1879 / 2176 4963); or
- in person either at the Hong Kong Cemeteries and Crematoria Office, or the Kowloon Cemeteries and Crematoria Office.
Submission of Application
Completed application form together with the necessary documents should be submitted thr in person during office hours at the Hong Kong Cemeteries and ough any of the following methods:
- in person during office hours at the Hong Kong Cemeteries and Crematoria Office, or the Kowloon Cemeteries and Crematoria Office;
- by fax to 2591 1879 or 2176 4963; or
- by post to the FEHD Hong Kong Cemeteries and Crematoria Office, or the Kowloon Cemeteries and Crematoria Office.
Please note that application form (FEHB 136) should be duly completed. For a standard niche, at least one set of cremated ashes of a deceased person should be deposited. Otherwise, the application will not be processed. Change of the deceased's particulars is not allowed once the application has been acknowledged by FEHD.
Documents required for the application for a niche:
- a copy of the applicant's Hong Kong Identity Card;
- a copy of each deceased person's Hong Kong Identity Card or other documentary proof of the deceased's Hong Kong resident identity;
- a copy of the "Permit to Take Away Cremated Ashes" or "Certificate of Cremation" or "Permit to Remove / Exhume Remains" of each deceased person; if the deceased was cremated overseas, the applicant must submit the original certificate of cremation issued by overseas authorities for verification;
- for application for depositing the ashes of more than one deceased persons in the same niche, the original copy and its copy of the documentary proof of close relative relationship between the first deposited deceased and the other deceased person(s) mentioned in the application form;
- the original copy of the certificate issued by the Islands Rural Committee certifying that the first deceased person was an indigenous villager of the Islands District, or a bona fide resident of Islands District for a continuous residing period of not less than 7 years or their minor children; and
- the original copy of the statutory declaration made by the legal representative or next of kin of the first decreased person to declare that the first deceased person was an indigenous villager of the Islands District, or a bona fide resident of Islands District for a continuous residing period of not less than 7 years or their minor children.
For application made by fax or post, FEHD will arrange with the applicant at the Hong Kong Cemeteries and Crematoria Office or the Kowloon Cemeteries and Crematoria Office for completing statutory declaration for items 5 and 6 mentioned above, and for submission of the original copy of supporting document(s) for verification.
Processing of Applications
- After checking the application forms and supporting documents, FEHD will determine qualified applicants' priorities on a first-come-first-served basis. The eligible applicants will be invited to go to the FEHD Environmental Hygiene Office of Islands District according to their priorities at designated dates and times for niche allocation. If appointment letters are not received 14 calendar days after submitting the applications, applicants may call the hotline 2150 7502 for enquiries.
- Applicants must produce the originals of the above mentioned documents upon selection of niches. Otherwise the applications will be treated as void.
Other Points to Note
- The application procedure is simple. An applicant is only required to complete an application form and submit it together with the above documents. It is not necessary to commission other persons / organisations to make an application.
- No fee is charged for making an application.
- The fees for an extendable standard niche are $2,400 (Initial 20-year Interment Period) and $1,200 (10-year Interment Period (extension)) respectively. The fees for an extendable large niche are $3,000 (Initial 20-year Interment Period) and $1,500 (10-year Interment Period (extension)) respectively. The fee for mounting a memorial plaque for both types of the aforesaid niches is $90. The administration fee for placing an additional set of ashes is $140 thereafter.
- If an application for a used niche has also been made for the deceased in addition to an application for a new niche, upon successful allocation of a new niche, FEHD will remove the name of the deceased from the waiting list of used niches. Furthermore, if the deceased is the first deceased whose ashes are deposited in another public niche, the applicant should subsequently return that niche to FEHD.
- FEHD has not commissioned any organisations or persons to receive or process applications, or assist in the submission of applications. No one will be accorded any convenience or privilege.
- Duplicate applications for the same deceased will not be processed.
- FEHD will accept applications and allocate the new niches on a first-come-first-served basis until all the niches are allocated.
Information of the FEHD Offices
Cemeteries and Crematoria offices
Hong Kong Cemeteries and Crematoria Office
Address: 1J, Wong Nai Chung Road , Happy Valley, Hong Kong
Tel. No.: 2570 4318
Fax No.: 2591 1879
Kowloon Cemeteries and Crematoria Office
Address: Upper Ground Floor, 6 Cheong Hang Road , Hung Hom, Kowloon
Tel. No.: 2365 5321
Fax No.: 2176 4963
Office Hours:
Mondays to Fridays 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturdays 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
Sundays and Public Holidays Closed
Enquiries
Enquiry hotline: 2150 7502