1986 Ed.] Public Cemeteries (Urban Council) By-laws [CAP. 132
(1B) For the purposes of paragraph (1A), the measurement of the height of a monument, headstone or tablet shall be taken from the highest point of the surrounding ground and shall include the highest point of the monument, headstone or tablet, and the measurement of the length and width shall include any lateral projection from the monument, headstone or tablet.
(2) Where the Director gives his consent to the planting in any public cemetery of any tree or shrub, such consent shall be deemed to have been given subject to the condition that the tree or shrub may be clipped or pruned at the discretion of the Director.
(3) Every grave shall be numbered in a permanent form with a number corresponding to the number entered in the register required to be kept by the provisions of by-law 4, and every monument, headstone or tablet, and every railing or enclosure marking or enclosing any grave, shall be firmly seated in the ground.
(4) No monument, headstone or tablet shall be so constructed or shaped as to permit of the collection of water in or about it.
(5) No monument, headstone or tablet shall be removed or altered, nor shall anything be added thereto, without the consent in writing of the Director.
(6) Any monument, headstone or tablet, and any railing or enclosure marking or enclosing any grave, which, by reason of neglect or for any other reason, becomes dilapidated or in need of repair may, at the discretion of the Director, be removed and disposed of in such manner as he may think fit.
(7) For the purposes of this by-law, a headstone or tablet containing any words, carvings or portraits other than-
(a) the name of the deceased;
(b) his place of birth;
(c) the dates of his birth and death;
(d) a portrait of the deceased; and
(e) the name of the family erecting the headstone or tablet,
shall be deemed to be a monument.
8A. (1) The Director may, subject to paragraphs (2), (3) and (4), remove and dispose of--
(a) any grave covering which has after the commencement* of the Public Cemeteries (Amendment) By-laws 1979 been constructed over any grave opening in a public cemetery in contravention of by-law 7A(1);
(b) any monument, headstone or tablet which has, after the commencement of the said by-laws, been erected upon any grave in a public cemetery or altered or added to in contravention of by-law 8(1), (1A), (3), (4) or (5).
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[Subsidiary]
L.N. 79/79.
L.N. 206/72.
Removal of grave coverings,
monuments, headstones and tablets.
L.N. 79/79. (L.N. 79/79.) [* 23.3.79]
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