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arrangement
reburials.
(11) The Government shall make proper and fitting ar- Fitting and rangements for the reburial in an authorised cemetery or urn proper cemetery of any body or the remains of any body removed to be under sub-section (8) and for the removal and re-erection of made for any monument, all charges in connexion therewith being de- frayed out of the public revenné : Provided that, when it is desired otherwise to dispose of bodies or the remains of bodies of persons of Chinese race in accordance with Chinese custom, the necessary permission shall be given, subject to such con- ditions as the Governor may prescribe, all reasonable expenses in connection with such disposal, if within the Colony, being defrayed out of the public revenue.
(12) Any body or the remains of any body hereafter Power of buried or deposited without permission elsewhere than in an Chairman to dispose authorised cemetery or urn cemetery shall be liable to removal of body without notice by direction of the Chairman of the Council buried and may be disposed of as he may direct.
without permission.
(13) When any body or the remains of any body is or are Removal of removed under any of the provisions of this section, it shall grave or urn be lawful to remove also any grave or urn in which such body or remains are found.
nuisance.
(14) If any urn or the human remains contained therein Abatement be found in any authorised cemetery to be causing a nuisance of urn and the next of kin of the deceased cannot readily be found, it shall be lawful for any Health Officer to abate the nuisance by causing the urn to be reburied in a position as near as may be to that in which it was found.
(15) There shall be kept at the office of the Council a record of every permit granted and of every order
or direc- tion made under the provisions of this section, other than permits, orders or directions relating to urns. Such record shall contain particulars, so far as the same can be ascertained, of the race, nationality, name, sex and age of the persons whose bodies or the remains of whose bodies have been re- moved under the provisions of this section, and particulars of the places from which and to which the same have been removed. Such record shall be open to inspection by any person during office hours.
Records to
be kept at office of
Council.
(16) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section, Powers of it shall be lawful for a magistrate to order the exhumation of magistrate. any body or the remains of any body for the purpose of inquiry into the death of any person.
PART V.
GENERAL.
Service of Notice, Summons or Order.
summonses
76. Any notice, summons or order given, issued or Service of made under the provisions of this Ordinance, may be served notices, upon the person affected by the document to be served, either or orders. personally or by leaving the same with any occupier of the premises to which such document relates, or by leaving the same with some adult inmate at the usual or last-known place of