18 Aug 2024 The Straits Times
Exhumation Notice
HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT BOARD
National Environment Agency
NOTICE FOR EXHUMATION OF GRAVES AT ST JOHN CHURCH CEMETERY
Based on the Urban Redevelopment Authority's gazetted Master Plan 2019, the St John Church Cemetery is located within "Church Town on land zoned "Residential". The Housing & Development Board (HDB), as the agent appointed by the Government, is undertaking site clearance to facilitate future development. To support HDB in the land preparation work, the National Environment Agency (NEA) will assist in undertaking the exhumation of the affected graves on site.
[Map of St John Church Cemetery location]
Registration of Claims
Next-of-kin who wish to make a claim for the affected graves may do so from 16 August 2024 to 30 April 2025. Next-of-kin of the affected graves may register their claims for the remains by completing the online Claim Registration Form by 30 April 2025 using the QR code below:
Choa Chu Kang Cemetery Office
940 Old Choa Chu Kang Road
Singapore 698910
Email: nea_cckcemetery@nea.gov.sg
Tel No: 6795 5511
Mondays to Fridays, 8.30am to 4.30pm
(Excluding Saturdays, Sundays & Public Holidays)
*Online registration
First-time visitors: You will be directed to a transition page to verify the go.gov.sg URL. Upon verification, you will be directed to a link which contains gov.sg
Repeat visitors: You will be directed straight to the link which contains gov.sg
Exhumation of graves will commence after registration of claims. All registered claimants will be notified of the exhumation date by NEA.
Please note that due to ongoing works at the site, for public safety, members of public are currently not allowed to enter without prior arrangements.
Important Information on Exhumation and Cremation by NEA
Exhumation
1. All graves will be exhumed individually by a contractor engaged and supervised by NEA.
2. The claimant and relatives who wish to witness the exhumation may do so on the scheduled date of exhumation.
3. The exhumed remains will be cremated at Choa Chu Kang Crematorium on the same day.
Options after cremation
4. The claimant may opt for the cremated remains to be:
(a) stored in government columbaria, subject to availability. NEA will allocate a standard niche. Claimants can opt to choose the location of the niche within their selected government columbarium upon fee payment of $280 per niche location.
(b) scattered at an inland ash scattering facility or at sea by NEA's appointed contractor.
5. NEA will bear the costs of exhumation, cremation, allocated standard niche, standard urn and standard niche plaque with inscription of deceased's name and date of death; or inland or sea ash scattering of cremated remains.
Private Arrangements
Claimants who wish to make private arrangements to engage their own contractor to exhume the graves may do so at their own expenses. Claimants are required to indicate their plans to engage an exhumation contractor and for managing the exhumation process in the online Claim Registration Form. The appointed contractor will have to apply for an exhumation permit from NEA by 31 May 2025, with the physical exhumation carried out by 31 July 2025.
Next-of-kin are encouraged to submit the online Claim Registration Form early.
Once the claim is registered, NEA will schedule and notify the claimant on the date of exhumation subsequently.
(All graves will be exhumed and the remains cremated. Unclaimed ashes will be kept for three years before being scattered at sea.)
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