Section 9
Section 9
Nothing in this Act contained shall prevent the burial Exemption or interment in or upon State land, or in or upon any land belonging to a private person with the consent of such per-son, of any corpse or the remains of a corpse found in an advanced state of decomposition under an order in writing for such burial or intern1ent made by a magistrate.
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Power to make rules
Burial Grounds 10.
(1)
His Majesty in Council may from time to time make and, when made, vary or rescind rules for any of the following purposes, namely
(a)
to provide for the registration, inspection and regulation of public and private burial grounds;
(b)
to prescribe the depth of graves and places of interment and the space to be reserved between them;
(c)
to prescribe the mode of making and keep-ing the register of burial and places of cremation;
(d)
to prescribe the form in which the register of burials and cremations shall be kept at each licensed burial or place of cremation, and the par-ticulars with regard to each burial and cremation which shall be entered in such register;
(e)
to prescribe the form of licences and the form and mode of publication or service of orders made under this Act;
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(f)
to prescribe the fees, if any, to be taken in any licensed public burial or place of cremation;
(g)
generally to carry out the provisions of this
Act in relation to all matters connected with the management, upkeep and good order of burial and places of cremation, due regard being had to the religious usages to the several classes of the com-munity;
and may attach to the breach of any such rules a penalty on conviction before a magistrate not exceeding $500.
(2)
All such rules shall be published in the Gazette.
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Burial Grounds
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