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Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

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    (1)   All applications for interments in the Cemetery are to be made to the head constable at the Town Constabulary Station, Castries, who, upon the receipt of a fee according to the scale hereinafter provided, shall issue from a consecutively paged or numbered book a receipt for the same, which shall state the amount received, and shall indicate the section of the Cemetery and the number of the grave or vault in respect of which the receipt is granted, as also the hour at which it is intended to present the body at the Cemetery for burial.

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    (2)   The Head Constable shall be furnished with a plan or chart of the Cemetery upon which the grave plots are numbered, and he or she shall, under instructions from the Cemetery Committee, allot such grave plots to applicants, stating on the receipt issued the number and position in the Cemetery of such grave plot. This receipt must be produced to the Keeper of the Cemetery at the time of the presentation of the corpse for interment for purposes of identification.

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    (3)   He or she shall in no case, unless specially instructed to that effect by the Cemetery Committee, allow any applicant to select a grave plot in any part of the Cemetery.

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    (4)   He or she shall at the same time obtain from the applicant and shall inscribe in a book to be kept for that purpose at the Constabulary Station a statement of the name, sex, age, description, birth-place, and date of the death of the person to be interred.

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    (5)   He or she shall immediately after issuing the receipt communicate by telephone all the information contained on the counterfoil of his or her Receipt book, as well as the particulars of the statement furnished under the preceding section to the Keeper of the Cemetery who shall confirm reception of the information by repeating the message.

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    (6)   He or she shall at 2:00 p.m. every day except Sundays and whole holidays pay to the Director of Finance and Planning all monies which he or she may have in his or her possession as payments for graves at the Cemetery and obtain a receipt for the same to the credit of the Cemetery account of the Castries Town Fund.

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