Monuments and head- stones, etc.
Government not to be
liable for loss
commem-
(2) Save with the consent in writing of the Director and in accordance with any conditions or restrictions which he may impose on the grant thereof, no person shall, in any public cemetery, construct any vault, burial niche or other place of interment, not being a grave.
8. (1) Save with the consent in writing of the Director and in accordance with any conditions or restrictions which he may impose on the grant thereof, no person shall, in any public cemetery, erect a monument, other than a headstone or tablet, upon any grave, or make any railing, fence or enclosure round or enclosing any grave space, or plant thereat any tree or shrub.
(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 în 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.
9. Every monument, headstone, tablet, railing, fence, enclosure, tree or shrub and every other commemorative article whatsoever,
or damage to 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.
orative
articles.
Mass erhumations.
10. (1) The Council may by resolution empower the Director to exhume or remove, or both to exhume and remove, the human remains of any person or any number of persons from any grave, uru or burial niche in a public cemetery and to dispose of the same by burial,
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cremation or otherwise in such manner as the Director may think fit or as such resolution may specify:
Provided that the Director shall not exercise any power conferred by any such resolution until-
(a) the terms of such resolution have been published in two
separate issues of the Gazette; and
(b) six months have elapsed from the date of the last such
publication.
(2) When any human remains are removed by the Director pursuant to a resolution under the provisions of paragraph (1), he may also remove and dispose of, in such manner as he may think fit. any coffin, um or other receptacle in which such remains were contained, any monument, headstone, tablet, railing or enclosure marking or enclosing the grave and any tree or shrub planted thereat.
11. 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 Director:
(b) post. affix or distribute any handbill, card, circular or adver-
tisement of any kind whatsoever;
(c) hold, promote or take part in any public 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 proces-
sion or any religious or commemorative meeting;
(e) discharge any firearms, 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, tree, 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
() behave in a noisy or unseemly manner.
Conduct and behaviour.
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