Registers.
Offences and penalties.
13. (1) The licensee of any funeral parlour shall keep a register
in the English language in which shall be recorded, so far as they are known to him, 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 deccased
were received into the funeral parlour;
( the date on, and the time at, which such remains were removed
from the funeral parlour:
(g) the date and number of the death certificate and of any permit for the burial, cremation, import to or removal from the Colony, as the case may be, of such remains;
(A) the name and address of the medical practitioner (if any) who certified as to the death of the deceased, and of the person signing any permit for burial, cremation, import to or removal from the Colony, as the case may be, of such remains;
( the name and address of the person (if any) who has under- taken to pay the charges (if any) of the funeral parlour;
() the manner in which such remains were disposed of after they
were removed from the funeral parlour; and
(k) where the deceased died from any quarantinable disease, whether or not those parts of the funeral parlour in which such remains were kept were disinfected after such remains were removed therefrom.
(2) Every such register shall be open to inspection at any time by any health officer, health inspector, police officer or member of the Council.
14. (1) Any person who contravenes the provisions of paragraph (1) of by-law 4 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprison- ment for six months.
(2) In the event of a contravention of any of the provisions of by-law 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12 or of paragraph (1) of by-law 13, the licensee of the funeral parlour shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars and. where the offence is a continuing offence, shall be liable in addition to a fine of ten dollars for each day during which it is proved to the satisfac tion of the court that the offence has continued.
15. Without prejudice to the provisions of any other enactment Name in relating to the prosecution of criminal offences and without prejudice which pra
ceedings for to the powers of the Attorney General in relation to the prosecution of offences may such offences, prosecutions for an offence under any of the provisions of be brought." these by-laws may be brought in the name of the Council.
16. Any licence granted under the provisions of the by-laws con- Transitional tained in Schedule A to the repealed Public Health (Sanitation) Ordin- provisions. Ance. 1935 under the heading "Private Mortuaries" which is in force (15 of 1935). at the commencement of these by-laws shall be deemed to have been granted under by-laws 4 of these by-laws.
to be in
17. It is hereby declared that, for the purposes of subsection (1) Provisions of section 150 of the Ordinance, the provisions of these by-laws shall of by-laws be in substitution for the provisions of the by-laws contained in substitution Schedule A to the repealed Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance, 1935 for provisions
of certain under the heading "Private Mortuaries".
by-laws.
1960.
Made by the Urban Council this 6th day of December, 1960.
1.3 Whitley
Secretary.
Approved by the Legislative Council this 21st day of December,
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
Deptity Clerk of Councils.
21st December, 1960.
Explanatory Note.
(This Note is not part of the by-laws, but
to indicate their general purport).
intended
The purpose of these by-laws is to replace, subject to amendment, the existing by-laws dealing with private mortuaries contained in Schedule A to the repealed Public Health. (Sandtation) Ordinance, 1935.
2. These by-laws follow substantially the existing by-laws with the excep- tion that the more commonly used title for this kind of establishment, namely, "funeral parlour" has been adopted in preference to the title "private mortuary".
3. A detailed Comparative Table is annexed to this Note.
COMPARATIVE TABLE.
By-law,
Corresponding existing by-law.
1
2
Remarks.
Citation. The more colloquial title of "funeral parlour is substituted for the title "private mortuary".
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