(1) No person having the charge or control of the body of any person who has died while suffering from'a notified disease shall permit or suffer persons to come unnecessarily into contact with, or proximity to, the body. "
(2) No person shall, without the sanction in writing of an officer of the' Public Health Depart ment of the. Government or of the local authority concerned not below the rank of Health Officer or Sanitary Inspector, retain in any premises (else where than in· a public mortuary) for more than .twelve hours the body of any person who has died while suffering from any·notified disease. .
(3) (a) If any such body not being a body kept in a mortuary remains undisposed off for more than twelve hours without the sanction referred to in sub-section (2) , or if the dead body of any person is retained in any building so as to 'endanger the health. of the inmates of such building or of any· adjoining or neighbour~ ing building, any Magistrate may, on theapplica tion of any officer referred to in sub-section (2), order .thebody to be removed and disposed off within a specified time.
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(b) A Maglstrate may,in the case' of the body of a person who has died while suffering from a notified disease, or in any. other case in which he considers the immediate disposal of the body neces sary, direct the body to be so disposed off, unless the friends or the relatives'of the deceased undertake the disposal of the body within a time specified .in the order. . . .
(c). The expenses of the. removal and disposal of any body under clause. (a) or clause (b) shll-ll be borne .by the locll-I authority; but such expenses may be recovet:ed as if it were. tax due to it, by the locll-I lI-uthority from any person who' would hll-ve been . legally 'lill-ble . therefor but for such removal and. disposal,unless' in the' opinion of the local authority he is to<> poor to do so,. .
. (4) (lI-) If· 'any person dies in abamitll-l or. a place of temporll-ry .accommodation ·ror"the sick while '. suffering from a notified disease, and the He~th Of!icer certifies that in his opinion it is d.esn-able, m order to ·prevent the' spread of' infec",;,,t., tion, that the body should not be removed froiii;J':'f~" such.h~ital or place e~cept for the purpose of be~:'/)~~ taken direct to a bUrIal of burning ground or a;:: 'c!
. crematorium for being forthwith buried or crej!%~, mated,. no person shan remove the body from the ",-" hospital or place except for such' a purpose. .
(b) When a body is removed for the purpose aforesaid it shall forthwith be taken direct to a burial or. burning ground or Ii: crematorium and there buried or cremated with the least practicable delay. !
(5) Without the permission of. the Health Officer or a Magistrate, no person shall cause or permit to be carried in a public conveYll-nce the dead body of any person who had died while suffering from a notified disease ..