Singapore legislation
Clause 121
Clause 121
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 Ordinance, or prepares any such place to be used for the burial or burning of any corpse shall be liable on conviction by a District Court to imprisonment for a term which may extend to twelve months or to a fine not exceeding four hundred dollars or to both such imprisonment and fine.
(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 fourteen 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 fourteen days the person convicted produces to the District Court a licence granted under section 119 or 120 of this Ordinance the order may be cancelled.
(4)
Any person who refuses or neglects to obey any such order shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars and to a further fine not exceeding twenty dollars 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.