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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 14TH MARCH, 1896.

Restrictions

en removal of dend body

from the

Colony.

(New))

Registrar to issue certifi- eate of death or Magistrate performing duties of Coroner to Issue permit for burial. Penalty on person performing funeral service with- out any Authority for burial.

(Yow.

Altered fron

7 of 1872, s. 11.)

Burial of decensed child as still-born. (37 & 28 Vic. #. 89, s. 18.)

Notice wher

offin contains more than

one body. (7617, s. 19.)

The issue of the aforesaid removal permit shall be forth- with reported to the Registrar General 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.

(f). No person, unless acting under the written sanction or direction of the Secretary of the Sanitary Board shall remove or assist or attempt to remove or procure the removal of a dead body from the Colony mutil he shall have obtained from the Registrar General or a registrar a certificate according to the form of schedule (B) to this Ordinance annexed.

12 (a). The Registrar General or a registrar, imine- diately upon registering any death, or as soon thereafter as he shall be required so to do, shall, without fee or reward, 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 band according to the form in schedule (J) to this Ordinanco annexed, that such death has been duly registered, and such certificate shall be delivered by such undertaker or other person to the minister or officiating person, if any, who shall be required to perform any religious service for the burial of the dead body. Provided always that any Magistrate, appointed by the Governor to discharge the duties of Coroner may order any body to be buried, if be shall think fit, before registration of the death, and shall in such case give a certificate of his order in writing under his hand according to the form in schedule (K) to this Ordinance annexed, to the relative of the deceased or other person whe causes the body to be buried or to such under- taker or other person having charge of the funeral, and such certificate shall be delivered by the recipient to such minister or officiating person as aforesaid. Any person who shall perform any funeral or religious service for the burial of any dead body without receiving either a certificate duly made and delivered as aforesaid, by the Registrar General, registrar or Magistrate, or a paper containing the written sanction or direction to bury of the Secretary of the Sanitary Board, or a permit to bury by an inspector or other officer in charge of a Police station, shall be punish- able for every such offence, upon summary conviction before a Police Magistrate, with a fine not exceeding fifty dollars and in default of payment thereof with imprison- ment for any term not exceeding two months with or with- out hard labour,

(b). A person shall not wilfully bury or procure to be buried the body of any deceased child as if it were still- born. A person who has control over or ordinarily buries bodies in any burial ground shall not permit to be buried in such burial ground the body of any deceased child as if it were still-born, and shall not permit to be buried or bury in such burial ground any still-born child before there is delivered to him either-

(i) a written certificate according to the form in schedule (L) to this Ordinance annexed 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 (ii) a declaration according to the form in the sche- dule (1) to this Ordinance annexed signed by some person who would, if the child had been born alive, have been required by this Ordinance to give information concerning the birth, to the effect that no registered medical practitioner was pre- sent at the birth, or that his certificate cannot be obtained, or that the child was not born alive; or (iii) an order of any Magistrate appointed by the Governor to discharge the duties of Coroner.

(c). Where there is in the coffin in which any deceased person is brought for burial the body of any other deceased person, or the body of any still-born ebild, the undertaker or other person who has charge of the funeral shall deliver to the person who buries or performs any funeral or religious service for the burial of such body or bodies notice in writ- ing signed by such undertaker or other person, and stating to the best of his knowledge and belief with respect to each such body the following particulars, according to the