1986 Ed.]
Private Cemeteries (Regional Council) By-laws
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10. Where, in any private cemetery, any grave is re-opened for the purpose of making another interment therein, no person shall disturb any human remains interred therein or remove therefrom any soil which is offensive.
11. (1) No person shall deposit any human remains in a vault in a private cemetery unless such remains are encoffined:
Provided that skeletal remains or ashes after cremation may be enclosed in an urn.
(2) Every person who deposits any human remains in a vault shall, within 24 hours after the deposit in the vault of the coffin containing such remains, cause the coffin to be wholly and permanently embedded in and covered with a layer of good cement concrete, not less than 150 mm in thickness, or to be wholly and permanently enclosed in a separate cell or receptacle which is constructed of slate or stone flagging, not less than 50 mm in thickness and properly jointed in cement, or of good brickwork in cement and in such a manner as to prevent, so far as practicable, the escape of any noxious gas from the interior of the cell or receptacle.
(3) The provisions of paragraph (2) shall not apply to any skeletal remains or ashes after cremation which are enclosed in an urn.
[Subsidiary] Re-opening of graves.
Burial in vaults.
L.N. 89/79.
12. Nothing in these by-laws shall be taken or construed to prevent the scattering of ashes after cremation upon the surface of the ground in any private cemetery.
13. (1) Any person who-
(a) for the purpose of obtaining the permission of the Council for the interment in a private cemetery of the human remains of any person, makes any declaration or statement which he knows, or has reason to believe, to be false in a material particular;
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(b) contravenes any of the provisions of by-law 3(1), (2) or (3), by-law 4(1) or (2), by-law 5(1), (2) or (4), by-law 6(1) to (6), by-law 9 or 10, by-law 11(1) or (2) or by-law 15(1), (3) or (4), shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $1,000 and, where the offence is a continuing offence, shall be liable in addition to a fine of $20 for each day during which it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the offence has continued.
(2) In the event of any contravention of the provision of by-law 8, the manager of the cemetery shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $1,000.
DA Siz
Scattering of ashes after cremation. 10 of 1986, s. 32(2).
Offences and penalties. L.N. 150/72. L.N. 255/75. 10 of 1986, s. 32(2).
LN 305/27
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