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CAP. 132] Public Cemeteries (Regional Council)
[1986 Ed.
By-laws
[Subsidiary]
L.N. 67/85.
Government not liable for loss or damage to commemorative articles.
Conduct and behaviour.
L.N. 151/72.
10 of 1986, s. 32(2).
Fees.
10 of 1986, s. 32(2). Second Schedule.
L.N. 151/72.
(4) The notice shall also be posted in some conspicuous place on the grave covering, monument, headstone or tablet.
(5) Any person modifying, removing or disposing of a grave covering, monument, headstone or tablet pursuant to a notice under paragraph (2) shall carry out the work in accordance with the directions, and subject to the supervision, of an officer of the Regional Services Department.
(6) If no next of kin is named in the register referred to in paragraph (3), the Council may exercise the power in paragraph (1) without giving notice under paragraph (2).
9. Every monument, headstone, tablet, railing, fence, enclosure, tree or shrub and every other commemorative article whatsoever, whether movable or immovable, which is placed at any grave shall be there at the risk of the owner thereof, and the Government shall not be liable for any loss or damage thereto arising from any cause whatsoever.
10. No person shall, in any public cemetery-----
(a) sell or let for hire, or expose for sale or letting for hire, any article or thing without the consent of the Council;
(b) post, affix or distribute any handbill, card, circular or advertisement of any kind whatsoever;
(c) hold, promote or take part in any meeting, other than a meeting of a religious or commemorative nature relating to the death of any person whose human remains have been buried or otherwise disposed of in the cemetery;
(d) wilfully disturb or interfere with any funeral service or procession or any religious or commemorative meeting;
(e) discharge any firearm, except in the proper performance of a military funeral;
(f) wilfully or carelessly deface, injure, soil or defile any wall or fence in or enclosing the cemetery, or any part thereof, or any grave, vault, urn, burial niche, barrier, railing, post, seat, boundary stone, monument, headstone, tablet, ornament, trees, shrub or ornamental plant;
(g) climb any wall or fence in or enclosing the cemetery, or any part thereof, or any tree, barrier, railing, pole, monument, headstone, tablet or ornament; or
(h) behave in a noisy or unseemly manner.
11. (1) The fees prescribed in the Second Schedule shall be payable to the Council.
(2) No fee shall be payable in respect of the interment of a pauper.