Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act, 1948
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Restriction on exhumations. |
46.—(1) The Minister may grant a licence for the exhumation of the body of a deceased person. | |
(2) The Minister may attach to a licence under this section such conditions as he thinks proper including, in particular— | ||
(a) conditions requiring re-interment at a specified place or within a specified period, | ||
(b) conditions for securing that the exhumation and any re-interment required by the conditions shall be carried out with due care and decency and in such a manner as not to endanger public health. | ||
(3) A licence under this section may be granted in respect of a particular body or in respect of all or any of the bodies buried in a particular place. | ||
(4) A person shall not exhume from a burial ground the body of a deceased person save under a licence granted under this section or pursuant to an order of the Minister for Justice under section 15 of the Coroners (Amendment) Act, 1927 (No. 1 of 1927). | ||
(5) A person who contravenes subsection (4) of this section or who, on or after the exhumation of a body under the authority of a licence under this section, does not comply with a condition attached to the licence, shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds or, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. | ||
(6) A person shall not be entitled solely by reason of a licence granted under this section to carry out any exhumation or reinterment. |