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4. Save as regards places in which cremation is allowed with the special permission of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, clause 5 lays down the conditions to be observed before any place will be approved for use as a crematorium.

5. By clause 6 the building of crematoria is in general forbidden in certain neighbourhoods.

6. Clause 7 empowers the Governor in Council to make regulations for the control of crematoria and cremation, and applies to crematoria registers the provisions of other Ordin- ances as to the destruction or falsification of burial registers, and the admissibility as evidence of extracts therefrom.

7. Clause 8 is penal and clause 9 makes cremation fees and expenses part of the funeral expenses of the deceased.

8. Clause 9 makes it clear that nothing in this enactment affects the power of a magistrate under section 17 of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1934, to order any body to be cremated.

9. Clause 11 repeals the Cremation Ordinance, 1914, from which many of the provisions of this Bill are derived.

September, 1934.

R. E. LINDSELL,

Attorney General.