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Allocations and layout of public cemeterica.

Register of

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First Schedule.

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PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE, 1960.

(No. 30 of 1960),

PUBLIC CEMeteries By-LAWS, 1960.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 116 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, the Urban Council has made the following by-laws-

1960.

1. These by-laws may be cited as the Public Cemeteries By-laws,

2.

In these by-laws, save where the context otherwise requires- "body" means the dead body of a human being, but does not include

ashes thereof after cremation;

“Council" means the Urban Council:

"Director" means the Director of Urban Services:

"public comelery" means any cemetery specified in Part I of the Fifth

Schedule to the Ordinance.

3. The Director may-

(a) direct that any particular public cemetery or any part of a public cemetery be set aside or allocated for the reception of human remains of particular persons or of persons belonging to any particular community, race or religion; and

(5) direct that the disposal of the human remains of any particular person, or the human remains of persons belonging to any particular community, race or religion, shall not take place in any particular public cemetery or any particular part of any public cemetery and that disposal thereof shall be effected in any other public cemetery or any other part of a public cemetery.

4.

(1) At every public cemetery, in the custody of the officer in charge thereof, there shall be kept a register in the form prescribed in the First Schedule containing particulars of the persons whose human remains are deposited in the cemetery.

(2) Every register required to be kept by the provisions of para- graph (1) shall be kept in duplicate, and, at the end of each month, the duplicate copy of the entries made therein during the preceding month shall be sent to the Director for custody.

(3)(a) The register kept at any public cemetery may be inspected at the cemetery by the public at all times during which such cemetery is open to the public, and the duplicate copies kept in the custody of the Director may be inspected during office hours on application to him.

(6) Any person requiring a certified copy of any entry in any such register may obtain the same from the Director upon payment of a fee of two dollars per entry.

certificates

5. A person in charge of the disposal in a public cemetery of Certain the human remains of any person shall, in relation to such remains, permits or produce to the officer in charge of the cemetery at the time when the interment takes place-

to be produced at time of

(a) in the case of a first interment of the body of any person dying intermeol.

in the Colony-

(D) a permit of a police officer issued under the provisions of the proviso to subsection (1) of section 16 of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance;

(ii) a certificate of registration of death or of a magistrate's order issued under the provisions of subsection (1) of section 17 of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance; or

(ii) in the case of the body of a still-born child, a certificate, declaration or magistrate's order issued or made under the provisions of section 18 of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance; or

(8) in any other case, the permission in writing of the Council

authorizing the interment,

(Cap. 174).

6. (1) The Director may prescribe, by notice posted in such Times of manner as he may think fit at any public cemetery or other place, the burlalo. times during which human remains may be received into the cemetery.

(3) In the case of the interment of the human remains of any person in the Colonial Cemetery or the New Colonial Cemetery, the person in charge of the disposal of such remains shall give to the officer in charge of the cemetery not less than two hours notice of the time at which it is intended that the interment shall take place.

digging and

construction.

of vaults, etc.

7. (1) No person, other than an officer of the Urban Services Grave Department, shall, in any public cemetery, dig or fill in any grave with out the consent of the officer in charge of the cemetery, and, where such consent is given, the work shall be carried out in accordance with the directions, and subject to the supervision of such officer in charge of the cemetery.