Section 3: Time within which any person interested may claim body of a deceased person from the authorities in charge of hospitals or prisons

When a person dies in a hospital or in a prison, the authority in charge of such hospital or prison shall immediately report the fact of such death, to the nearest relative of the deceased person mentioned in the records maintained in such hospital or prison, and any person interested may, within two days from the date of the death of the deceased person excluding the day on which the death takes place, claim the body of the deceased person from the authority in charge of such hospital or prison: Provided that, if in the opinion of the authority in charge of the hospital or prison, there are good and sufficient reasons for believing that the body of the deceased person is likely to be claimed by a near relative of such person, it may keep the body in its possession for a further period of two days.