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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 24, 1934.

Restriction

on removal of dead

body.

Second Schedule.

Form No. 9.

Second Schedule.

Form No. 10.

16.-(1) No person, unless acting under the written sanction or direction of a registrar, shall remove, or assist or attempt to remove, or procure the removal of, or bury any dead body until a certificate of registration of death under section 17 has been issued, or an order to bury or cremate has been obtained from a magistrate: Provided always that where interment is urgent and it is not possible promptly to procure such certificate or order, it shall be the duty of any person who may desire to remove or bury a dead body to report the same at the nearest police station, when the inspector or other officer in charge may issue forthwith a permit according to Form No. 9 in the Second Schedule. The issue of such permit shall be forthwith reported to a registrar by the issuing officer, and shall not exonerate the persons required by this Ordinance to give information respecting the death of any person from giving the information required.

(2) No person shall remove, or assist or attempt to re- move, or procure the removal of a dead body from the Colony until he has obtained from a registrar a certificate according to Form No. 10 in the Second Schedule.

Issue of certificate of registra- tion of

death or of certificate of order for burial. Second Schedule. Form No. 11.

Second Schedule.

Form No. 12.

Second Schedule.

Form No. 13.

17.-(1) A registrar, immediately on registering any death or as soon thereafter as he may be required to do so, shall, without any fee, deliver, either to the person giving information concerning the death or to the undertaker or other person having charge of the funeral, a certificate under his hand, according to Form No. 11 in the Second Schedule, that such death has been duly registered, and such certificate shall be delivered by such undertaker or other person to the officer in charge of the police station for the district where the death was registered: Provided always that any magistrate may order any body to be buried or cremated, if he thinks fit, before registration of the death, and shall in such case give a certificate of his order in writing under his hand. according to Form No. 12 in the Second Schedule, to the relative of the deceased or other person who causes the body to be buried or cremated or to such undertaker

or other person having charge of the funeral, and such certificate shall be delivered by the recipient to such police officer, as aforesaid.

(2) In addition to the certificates mentioned above, any person obtaining registration under section 14 shall be entitled at the time of registration to receive a free certificate in Form No. 13 in the Second Schedule.

Burial of deceased child as still-born, etc.

37 & 38 Vict.

c. 88, s. 18.

Second Schedule. Forms Nos. 14 and 15.

18. No person shall wilfully bury or procure to be buried the body of any deceased child as if it were still-born. No person shall bury or procure to be buried any still-born child, unless there is delivered to him either-

(1) a written certificate, according to Form No. 14 in the Second Schedule, that such child was not born alive, signed by a registered medical practitioner who was in attendance at the birth or has examined the body of such child; or

(2) a declaration, according to Form No. 15 in the Second Schedule, signed by some person who would, if the child had been born alive, have been required by this Ordinance to give