39Interment in mausolea

39 Interment in mausolea

Reg. 39(1) amended by S.R. No. 114/2025 reg. 8(1).

(1) A cemetery trust or a person who inters bodily remains or body parts in a mausoleum in a public cemetery must ensure that the bodily remains or body parts are interred in a coffin, casket, container or receptacle—

(a) that is clean and hygienic; and

(b) that is constructed of wood, metal or other substantial material; and

(c) from which neither offensive or noxious emissions nor matter from the bodily remains or body parts will escape.

Penalty: 10 penalty units.

Reg. 39(2) amended by S.R. No. 114/2025 reg. 8(2).

(2) A cemetery trust or a person who inters bodily remains or body parts in a mausoleum in a public cemetery must ensure that the coffin, casket, container or receptacle enclosing the bodily remains or body parts is conspicuously labelled with the full name of the deceased person or person to whom the body parts belonged.

(3) A cemetery trust or a person who inters bodily remains or body parts in a mausoleum in a public cemetery must ensure that the bodily remains or body parts are interred—

(a) in a soundly constructed crypt space; and

(b) in a crypt space in which the number of interments has not exceeded the number of interments for which the crypt space was designed.

Penalty: 10 penalty units.