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Burials in certain towns to be in public or approved cemeteries
Cap. 40, s. 30 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) The bodies of dead persons or of stillborn children shall not be buried within the limits of the towns and villages named and described in the First Schedule or any other place which may from time to time be included in this provision by an Order of the Minister published in the Gazette, except in some public or other approved cemetery or place duly set apart for burials within such limits.
(2) Any person who wilfully buries in the ground or place or puts any such body in any super terrene receptacle within such limits, or who performs any service or ceremony whatever over any body buried or placed as aforesaid is guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
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