Section 161: Cemeteries
consolidated text (as at 2006, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
161. Cemeteries
(1) (a) The President may select and specify within Mauritius and notify
in the Gazette, sufficient and proper places to be the sites of, and to be used
as, cemeteries.
(b) Every person shall bury the dead in the cemeteries referred to in
paragraph (a) in accordance with regulations made under this Act.
(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) (b) shall commit an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 1,000 rupees.
[s. 161 amended by Act 48 of 1991.]
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Questions this section answers
- Must I bury a dead body only in an authorised cemetery?