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BURIAL AND CREMATION ACT
Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)
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BURIAL AND CREMATION ACT
ACT
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title
2. Interpretation
3. Act binds the Crown
PART 1 BURIAL GROUNDS
Division 1 Public burial grounds
4. Designation of public burial ground
Division 2 Private burial grounds
5. Restriction on private burial ground
6. Registration of existing private burial ground
7. Application for registration
8. Grant or refusal of application
9. Issue of certificate of registration
10. Validity of registration
11. Re-registration
12. Display of certificate of registration
13. Revocation of registration
14. Exemption
Division 3 General
15. Control and management of burial ground
16. Officers of burial ground
17. Closure of burial ground
18. Reopening of closed burial ground
19. Places of burial
20. Emergency burial ground
21. Offences
PART 2 CREMATION
22. Restriction on crematorium or cremation pyre site
23. Application for licence
24. Grant or refusal of application
25. Licence
26. Validity of licence
27. Renewal of licence
28. Display of licence
29. Revocation of licence
30. Closure of crematorium or cremation pyre site
31. Location of crematorium or cremation pyre site
32. Maintenance and operation
33. Restriction on cremation
34. Request for cremation
35. Grant or refusal of request
36. Human remains to be reduced to ashes
37. Disposal of ashes
38. Importation of ashes
39. Exportation of ashes
40. Register of cremations
41. Documents to be retained
42. Disposal of documents
PART 3 MISCELLANEOUS
43. Register
44. Exhumation of human remains
45. Waiver of custom duty and service charge
46. Opening hours
47. Regulations
48. Bye-laws
49. Repeal
50. Savings
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION
Cemeteries Rules (Gazette 3–6–1884, 11–11–1911, S.I. 10/1924, 6/1935, 12/1927, 57/1946, 7/1918, 8/1929, 22/1930, 50/1940)
PART 1 CASTRIES RIVERSIDE CEMETERY
PART 2 GROS ISLET CEMETERY
PART 3 MICOUD CEMETERY
PART 4 DENNERY CEMETERY
PART 5 CHOISEUL CEMETERY
PART 6 BOUGUIS CEMETERY
Burial and Cremation (Designation of Public Burial Ground) Notice – Section 4 (Statutory Instrument 150/2019)
1. Citation
2. Designation of public burial ground
Schedule