2246
Site of crematorium.
Regulations.
*
Ordinance No. 8 of 1893.
Penalties for breach of regulations, etc.
No. 5 of 1914.
CREMATION.
4. No crematorium shall be constructed nearer to any dwelling-house than two hundred yards, except with the consent in writing of the owner, lessee and occupier of such house, nor within fifty yards of any public highway, nor in the consecrated part of the burial ground of any burial authority: Provided that the Governor in Council may authorise the maintenance within these limits of any existing crematorium for such period of time as he may think fit.
5. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations in respect of any of the following matters:
(a) the maintenance and inspection of crematoria;
(b) the cases in which and the conditions under which the burning of any human remains may take place;
(c) the disposition or interment of the ashes resulting from any such burning;
(d) the forms of the notices, certificates and declarations to be given or made before any such burning is permitted to take place, such declarations to be made under and by virtue of the Statutory Declarations Ordinance, 1893;
(e) the fees or charges for the burning of human remains in any crematorium provided by any burial authority;
(f) the registration of such burnings as have taken place; and
(g) all such other matters not hereinbefore specifically mentioned as may conduce to the better carrying out of this Ordinance.
(2) All statutory provisions relating to the destruction and falsification of registers of burials, and the admissibility of extracts therefrom as evidence in courts and otherwise, shall apply to the registers of burnings directed by such regulations to be kept.
6.—(1) Every person who contravenes any such regulation as aforesaid, or knowingly carries out or procures or takes part in the burning of any human remains, except in accordance with such regulations and the provisions of this Ordinance, shall (in addition to any liability or penalty which he may otherwise incur) be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
2246
Site of cre- matorium.
Regulations.
*
Ordinance No. 8 of 1893.
Penalties for breach of regulations,
etc.
No. 5 of 1914.
CREMATION.
4. No crematorium shall be constructed nearer to any dwelling-house than two hundred yards, except with the consent in writing of the owner, lessee and occupier of such house, nor within fifty yards of any public highway, nor in the consecrated part of the burial ground of any burial authority: Provided that the Governor in Council may authorise the maintenance within these limits of any existing crematorium for such period of time as he may think fit.
5. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations in respect of any of the following
matters:
(a) the maintenance and inspection of crematoria ;
(b) the cases in which and the conditions under which the burning of any human remains may take place;
(c) the disposition or interment of the ashes resulting from any such burning;
(d) the forms of the notices, certificates and declarations to be given or made before any such burning is permitted to take place, such declarations to be made under and by virtue of the Statutory Declarations Ordinance, 1893;
(e) the fees or charges for the burning of human remains in any crematorium provided by any burial authority;
(f) the registration of such burnings as have taken place; and
(g) all such other matters not hereinbefore specifically mentioned as may conduce to the better carrying out of this Ordinance.
(2) All statutory provisions relating to the destruction and falsification of registers of burials, and the admissibility of extracts therefrom as evidence in courts and otherwise, shall apply to the registers of burnings directed by such regula- tions to be kept.
6.—(1) Every person who contravenes any such regulation as aforesaid, or knowingly carries out or procures or takes part in the burning of any human remains, except in accordance with such regulations and the provisions of this Ordinance, shall (in addition to any liability or penalty which he may otherwise incur) be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
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