Attorney General or coroner may forbid cremation
14 Attorney General or coroner may forbid cremation
The Attorney General or any coroner may, in any case in which there shall appear to be reasonable cause for preventing the cremation of the body or any part of the body of any deceased person, issue an order in writing under his hand forbidding the cremation of such body, either absolutely or until the viscera or any other organs have been removed from the body and lodged or deposited in such place and custody as may be specified in the order, and any such order shall be binding on every person to whose knowledge it shall come, and no such person shall do any act in contravention thereof.
[Section 14 amended: No. 59 of 2004 s. 141.]
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