Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Act · s 13

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s 13

(1)

If a person dies in a hospital, reception place or quarantine station from any infectious disease, and if in the opinion of the medical or health officer in charge of such hospital, place or station it is desirable in order to prevent the risk of spreading infection that the body shall not be removed therefrom, except for the purpose of being forthwith buried or burnt, no person shall remove the body except for such purpose.

(2)

The body when taken out from such hospital, place or station shall be forthwith taken direct to the place where it is to be buried or burnt and there buried or burnt.

(3)

Any person who wilfully offends against this section shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, a fine of $200.

(4)

Nothing in this section shall prevent the removal of a dead body from a hospital, reception place, or quarantine station to a mortuary, and such mortuary shall for the purposes of this section be deemed part of such hospital, place or station.