Section 37: Interment, cremation or immersion at sea

37. Interment, cremation or immersion at sea (1) Notwithstanding sections 161 and 168 of the Public Health Act but subject to subsections (2) and (3) and to any other enactment, the body of any dead person may be disposed of by interment, cremation or immersion at sea. (2) No interment, cremation or immersion at sea of the body of any dead person shall take place— (a) without a permit from an officer in such form as the Registrar of Civil Status may approve; (b) except where the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry responsible for the subject of health or any person authorised by him otherwise consents in writing, before the expiry of 24 hours after the death of the person; (c) in the case of an immersion at sea, except in accordance with such conditions as the Minister, or any person authorised by him, thinks fit to impose. [S. 37 amended by Act 9 of 1984.]