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Power of Chairman to dispose of body buried without
permission.
Removal of grave or urn.
Records to be kept at office of Urban Council.
Powers of magistrate.
Power of members of Council or
authorised
officers to inspect cemeteries.
Graves to bear a number.
Registers
to be kept.
Depth of graves.
Number of corpses allowed in
a grave.
Interspace between coffins,
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(12) Any body or the remains of any body hereafter buried or deposited without permission elsewhere than in an authorised cemetery or urn cemetery shall be liable to removal without notice by direction of the Chairman of the Urban Council and may be disposed of as he may direct.
(13) When any body or the remains of any body is or are removed under any of the provisions of this section, it shall be lawful to remove also any grave or urn in which such body or remains are found.
(14) There shall be kept at the office of the Urban Council a record of every permit granted and of every order or direc- tion made under the provisions of this section, other than permits, orders or directions relating to urns. Such record shall contain particulars, so far as the same can be ascertained, of the race, nationality, name, sex and age of the persons whose bodies or the remains of whose bodies have been re- moved under the provisions of this section, and particulars of the places from which and to which the same have been removed. Such record shall be open to inspection by any person during office hours.
(15) Notwithstanding anything contained in this section. it shall be lawful for a magistrate to order the exhumation of any body or the remains of any body for the purpose of inquiry into the death of any person.
182. Every cemetery shall be at all times open to inspection by any member of the Council or by any officer directed by the Chairman to make such inspection.
183. Every grave shall bear a number.
184. A register shall be kept by the person or persons in charge of each cemetery, and the date of burial, name, sex and age of each person shall be entered therein against the number of the grave in which the corpse is interred. Such register shall be open to inspection by any member of the public, at any reasonable hour.
185. Each grave shall be dug to a depth of at least 5 feet, with the exception of the graves of children under 10 years of age which need not exceed 4 feet in depth.
186. Except in the cases hereinafter specified only one corpse shall be placed in one grave. Exceptions: (A) In the case of the interment of children under 10 years of age more than one corpse may be interred in one grave, provided the top of the uppermost coffin is at least 30 inches below the ground surface; (B) More than one member of the same family may be interred in one grave, provided the top of the upper- most coffin is at least 30 inches below the ground surface.
187. The interspace between any two coffins (except when buried in a single grave under section 186) at any point shall be at least 18 inches.
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