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Power of Director of Health Services to grant permission to disinter

Cap. 40, s. 46 · Revised Edition 2020

The Director of Health Services may, on application made to him grant permission, subject to such conditions as he may think fit to impose, to disinter the body of any person buried within Belize in order that such body may be cremated or reinterred at some other place within, or removed from, Provided that, (a) the applicant is, by reason of kinship, connection by marriage, or friendship with the deceased, or on any other grounds of whatever kind, a fit and proper person to make the application; (b) such disinterment can be effected without danger to the public health; and (c) having regard to all the circumstances of the case it is expedient to grant such permission.
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