Statutory Instrument 1/1935 .. in force 19 January 1935
Commencement [19 January 1935]
1. The dead body must be delivered here in an impermeable coffin.
2. The body must be accompanied by a death certificate.
3. It shall be the duty of the master of every ship which has brought a dead human body into any port of Saint Lucia to give notice of that fact to the Harbour Master immediately after such officer has boarded such ship.
4. It shall be the duty of the Harbour Master to inform the sanitary authority through the port health officer of the arrival in Saint Lucia of a dead human body, and the person to whom the dead body is consigned.
5. The master of the ship shall not deliver such dead body to any person other than the sanitary authority or some person authorised by the sanitary authority.
6. Subject as hereinafter provided—
(1) The sanitary authority shall take control of such dead body brought into any port of Saint Lucia from some other Saint Lucia or country and shall cause it to be immediately conveyed to a public mortuary or other place sanctioned by the Senior Medical Officer and no such body shall be removed from such mortuary or other place except for the purpose of being buried in the nearest public cemetery.
(2) The coffin containing any such dead body may not be opened.
7. If the Senior Medical Officer is satisfied upon a report from the port health officer that the burial of any such dead body in some cemetery other than the nearest as aforesaid, or the opening of the coffin, involves no risk of communicating infectious disease or of spreading infection, he or she may grant permission in writing either for (a) removal for burial to some other specified cemetery; or (b) opening the coffin; or (c) both such removal and opening.