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CREMATION ACT 1929 - SECT 7

7 .         Disposal of ashes otherwise than by burial on site of crematorium

        (1)         Where any dead human body has been cremated in a crematorium, and the person who obtained the permit required by this Act for the cremation of such body desires to dispose of the ashes of such body after cremation otherwise than by burial upon the site of the crematorium, it shall be lawful for the Board or controlling authority of the cemetery, or the association in whose crematorium the body was cremated, to deliver the said ashes to the said person for removal from the crematorium.

        (2)         Subject to subsection (1), the ashes of a dead human body after cremation shall not be removed from the crematorium in which such body was cremated, except for the purpose of burial in the site of the crematorium.

        [Section 7 amended: No. 80 of 1953 s. 5; No. 35 of 1967 s. 2; No. 10 of 1983 s. 5.]



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