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CREMATION ACT 1929 - SECT 16

16 .         Revocation of licences

        (1)         The Governor may by order revoke any licence —

            (a)         if any of the licensees shall have been convicted of any offence against this Act and sentenced to imprisonment, or fined $100 or more;

            (b)         if the crematorium shall have become unfit for the inoffensive, decent, and effective cremation of bodies, and a certificate to that effect shall have been signed by the Chief Health Officer;

            (c)         if the licensees have lost the right to occupy the site of the crematorium,

                and thereupon the licence shall become null and void.

        (2)         No order revoking any licence on the ground mentioned in subsection (1)(a) or (b) shall be made more than 3 months after the date of the conviction or of the Chief Health Officer’s certificate, as the case may be.

        [Section 16 amended: No. 113 of 1965 s. 8; No. 28 of 1984 s. 12 and 13; No. 19 of 2010 s. 51; No. 19 of 2016 s. 125.]



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