1986 Ed.] Funeral Parlour (Regional Council)
By-laws
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ventilating system shall be kept in operation, but where an air-conditioning system is installed which services such a room, the windows thereof shall be kept closed and the air-conditioning system shall be kept in operation.
9. (1) No body in an advanced state of decomposition shall be received into any funeral parlour unless encoffined in a hermetically sealed coffin.
(2) No body shall be retained in any funeral parlour for a longer period than 48 hours unless the same is encoffined in a hermetically sealed coffin or is embalmed.
(3) Save with the permission in writing of the Council, no body shall be retained in any funeral parlour for longer than 7 days.
10. Where it appears to the licensee of any funeral parlour that the body of any person who has died while suffering from any quarantinable disease has been received into such funeral parlour, he shall forthwith notify a health officer or health inspector of the fact.
11. (1) No person shall handle, or carry out any process of embalming, preparing or treating, the body of any person who, to the knowledge or belief of such person, died while suffering from a quarantinable disease, unless he is wearing a rubber apron, or other protective clothing of a type approved by the Council, and rubber gloves.
(2) Any such rubber apron, protective clothing and rubber gloves shall be disinfected immediately after the same has been used.
12. The licensee of any funeral parlour shall, at all times, keep the premises, including all fittings, equipment, furniture, utensils and apparatus therein, in a clean and sanitary condition to the satisfaction of the Council.
13. (1) The licensee of any funeral parlour shall keep a register in English or Chinese in which he shall correctly record the following particulars—
(a) the name and address of the deceased;
(b) the age or approximate age of the deceased;
(c) the sex of the deceased;
(d) the date, place and cause of the death of the deceased;
(e) the date on, and the time at, which the remains of the deceased were received into the funeral parlour;
(f) the date on, and the time at, which such remains were removed from the funeral parlour;
[Subsidiary]
Reception and retention of human remains.
10 of 1986, s. 32(2).
Bodies of persons dying while suffering from quarantinable diseases.
Use of rubber gloves, etc.
10 of 1986, s. 32(2).
Cleanliness of premises.
10 of 1986, s. 32(2).
Registers.
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