1982 Ed.]
Public Health and Urban Services
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117. (1) The Director of Urban Services, or such other public officer as the Governor may authorize by notice published in the Gazette, may in relation to any public cemetery or any Common- wealth War Graves Commission Cemetery from time to time make rules for the better control, direction and information of persons resorting thereto: (Amended, 69 of 1976, s. 4)
- Provided that such rules shall not be inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulations made under section 116.
(2) Any person who fails to comply with any rule made under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.
118. (1) Any person who, without the permission in writing of the Authority, buries any human remains, or deposits any urn or other receptacle containing any human remains, or scatters the ashes of any human remains after cremation, otherwise than in a cemetery, shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) Save in accordance with the provisions of this Part. any person who, without the permission in writing of the Authority, exhumes any human remains or any part of any human remains or any article interred therewith, or removes any human remains, or any part of any human remains, or any article from any urn or other receptacle. or removes or carries away any urn or other receptacle containing any human remains from any place, shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) No permission under subsection (1) or (2) shall be granted to any person other than the legal personal representative or next of kin of the person whose remains are to be buried. deposited. exhumed or removed, as the case may be, or the duly authorized agent of such legal personal representative or next of kin, or failing any such legal personal representative or next of kin or any such agent thereof, a person who, in the opinion of the Authority, has a proper interest in the disposal of the human remains in respect of which such permission is granted:
Provided that the Authority may permit the removal of any human remains from one part of a private cemetery to another part of such private cemetery at the request of the management of such cemetery.
(4) Any human remains buried, or any urn or other receptacle containing any human remains deposited, otherwise than in accord- ance with the provisions of subsection (1) or of the provisions of section 119, outside a cemetery may be removed by the Authority and buried or deposited inside a cemetery or otherwise disposed of in such decent manner as the Authority may think fit:
Provided that----
(a) where such remains have been buried, or such urn or other receptacle has been deposited, in the urban areas, the consent of the Secretary for Home Affairs shall be obtained before such remains are, or such urn or other receptacle is. removed; and
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cemetery and Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery rules.
Prohibition of unauthorized burials and exhumations.
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