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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH AUGUST, 1896.
Furnishing of information by Coroner. (Ibid. 8, 16.)
Restrictions
en removal or burial of dend
horty.
(New)
Restrictions en removal of
end body from the Colony,
(New)
Registrar to issuo certif- cate of death or Magistrate performing duties of Coroner to
issue permit for burial.
Penalty on person performing Tuneral
service wich- out any authority for bravial,
(Nore.
Altered froni
7 of 1972, s. [1.)
Burial of decensed child as still-born. (37 & 34 Vic. c. 84, s. 19.
(d). Where an inquest is held on any dead body, any Magistrate, appointed by the Governor to discharge the duties of Coroner, shall inquire of the particulars required to be registered concerning the death, and such Magistrate shall send to the Registrar General, within 7 days next after the termination of the inquest, a certificate under his hand giving information concerning the death and specify- ing the said particulars, the cause of death and the time and place at which the inquest was held, and the Registrar General shall in the prescribed form and manuer enter the death and particulars.
Where an inquest is held on any dead body no person shall, with respect to such dead body or death, be subject to any penalty for failing to give information in pursuance of any other provision of this Ordinance.
(e). No person, unless acting under the written sanction or direction of the Secretary of the Sanitary Board, shall remove or assist or attempt to remove or procure the remo- val of or bury any dead body until a certificate of death under section 12 of this Ordinance shall have been issued, or an order to bury shall have been obtained from the Magistrate discharging the duties of Coroner; provided always that where interment is urgent and it is not possible to promptly procure the issue of such a certificate or order, it shall be the duty of any person who may desire to remove or bury a dead body to report his desire at the nearest Police station when the inspector or other officer in charge shall issue forthwith a removal permit according to the form of schedule (G) to this Ordinance annexed. The issue of the aforesaid removal permit shall be forth- with reported to the Registrar General by the issuing officer, and shall not exonerate the persons required by this Ordinance to give information respecting the death of any person from giving the information required.
(f). No person, unless acting under the written sanetion or direction of the Secretary of the Sanitary Board shall remove or assist or attempt to remove or procure the removal of a dead body from the Colony until he shall have obtained from the Registrar General or a registrar a certificate according to the form of schedule (H) to this Ordinance annexed.
12 (u). The Registrar General or a registrar, imme- diately upon registering any death, or as soon thereafter as he shall be required so to do, shall, without fee or reward, deliver either to the person giving information concerning the death, or to the undertaker, or other person having charge of the funeral, a certificate under his hand according to the form in schedule (J) to this Ordinance annexed, that such death has been duly registered, and such certificate shall be delivered by such undertaker or other person to the minister or officiating person, if any, who shall be required to perform any religious service for the burial of the dead body. Provided always that any Magistrate, appointed by the Governor to discharge the duties of Coroner may order any body to be buried, if he shall think fit, before registration of the death, and shall in such case give a certificate of his order in writing under bis hand according to the form in schedule (K) to this Ordinance annexed, to the relative of the deceased or other person who causes the body to be buried or to such under- taker or other person having charge of the funeral, and such certificate shall be delivered by the recipient to such minister or officiating person as aforesaid. Any person who shall perform any funeral or religious service for the burial of any dead body without receiving either a certificate duly made and delivered as aforesaid, by the Registrar General, registrar or Magistrate, or a paper containing the written sanction or direction to bury of the Secretary of the Sanitary Board, or a permit to bury by an inspector or other officer in charge of a Police station, shall be punish- able for every such offence, upon summary conviction before a Police Magistrate, with a fine not exceeding fifty dollars and in default of payment thereof with imprison- ment for any term not exceeding two months with or with- out hard labour.
(b). A person shall not wilfully bury or procure to be buried the body of any deceased child as if it were still- born. No person shall bury or procure to be buried any still-born child unless there is delivered to him either-