[Public Health Enactments,1914-25].

  • Johor
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[1914-1925]
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Credit: [Public Health Enactments,1914-25]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Burials [XXIX of 1919.] Enactment. 3 (ii) If any person refuses or neglects to obey any such order he shall for such default be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars together with such further sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars a day for every day during which such default shall continue as the Magistrate shall order and the Magistrate may proceed to carry the order into execution at the expense of such person and to hire and employ proper persons for that purpose and may recover all expenses incurred in carrying the order into execution in the manner provided by law for the levy of fines imposed by a Magistrate. 9. Nothing in this Enactment contained shall prevent the burial or interment in or upon State land or in or upon any land belonging to a private person with the consent of such person 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 interment made by a Magistrate. 10. (i) Except as hereinbefore provided no person shall exhume any corpse or the remains of any corpse other than (fl) by order of a Magistrate' for the purpose of a judicial enquiry; (6) under a licence granted by the State Secretary under his hand authorizing such exhumation. 11. Any person who shall exhume or cause to be exhumed any corpse or the remains of any corpse contrary to the provisions of this section or of any rules made imder the last preceding sub-section or who shall neglect to observe any precaution prescribed as a condition of the licence to exhume or who shall fail to comply with any reasonable directions issued to him by a Health Officer for the purpose of preventing danger to the public health shall be guilty of an offence and for each such offence shall be liable on conviction before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars. 12. No prosecution shall be instituted under section 8 or section 11 of this Enactment without the previous sanction in writing of the Public Prosecutor. 13. (i) His Highness the Sultan in Executive Council may from time to time make and when made vary or rescmd rules for any of the following purposes—viz., {a) to provide for the registration inspection and regulation of public and private burial grounds; (6) to prescribe the depth of graves and places of interment and the space to be reserved between them; Penalty for disobedience of Magis- trate's order. Exception. Exhumation unlawful except by order of Magistrate or under a licence. Penalty for unlawful exhumation. No prosecu- tion witliout previous sanction of Public Prosecutor. Power to make rules. 1