Singapore legislation
Section 105
Section 105
Unlawful burials
(1)
Any person who buries or burns or causes or procures or suffers to be buried or burned any corpse in or upon any place, not being a place where burial or burning is permitted under this Act, or prepares any such place to be used for the burial or burning of any corpse, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction by a District Court to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.
(2)
A District Court, if for sanitary or other reasons it considers it expedient may, by a written order under its seal, direct any person who has been convicted of an offence under this section to remove within 14 days —
the corpse in respect of the unlawful interment of which he has been convicted from the place in which it has been buried to a lawful burial ground; or
any structure which has been erected at such place.
(3)
If, within 14 days, the person convicted produces to the District Court a licence granted under section 103 or 104, the order may be cancelled.
(4)
Any person who refuses or neglects to comply with any such order shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 and to a further fine not exceeding $500 for every day during which such default continues, and the District Court may proceed to carry the order into execution at the expense of such person and to hire or employ proper persons for that purpose and may recover such expense in the manner provided by law for the levy of fines imposed by a Court.[108