GABORONE CITY COUNCIL (CEMETERY) BYE-LAWS

(under regulations 34 and 35)

(28th June, 1968)

ARRANGEMENT OF BYE-LAWS

    BYE-LAW

    1.    Citation

    2.    Interpretation

    3.    Establishment

    4.    Burials outside cemetery

    5.    Permit for burials

    6.    Burial fees

    7.    Dimensions of graves

    8.    Body to be buried in coffin

    9.    Coffin to be covered

    10.    Graves to be numbered and burials registered

    11.    Memorial work

    12.    Exhumations

    13.    Restricted number of burials in one grave

    14.    Hours of opening of cemetery

    15.    Closing of cemetery

    16.    Exercise of control by caretaker

    17.    Offences within a cemetery

    18.    Penalties

        First Schedule

        Second Schedule - Burial Permit (Sesupo Sa Phitlho)

S.I. 54, 1968,
S.I. 56, 1997.

1.    Citation

    These Bye-laws may be cited as the Gaborone City Council (Cemetery) Bye-laws*.

*>Originally made under the Township Act now repealed, these regulations have been continued under s 94(2) of the Local Government Act, 2013.

2.    Interpretation

    In these Bye-laws, unless the context otherwise requires—

    "adult", in relation to a deceased person, means a person other than a child;

    "caretaker" means the person designated as such by the council;

    "cemetery" means cemetery established under the provisions of bye-law 3;

    "child" means a child under the age of 10 years;

    "City Clerk" means the City Clerk of Gaborone;

    "Council" means the City Council of Gaborone;

    "memorial work" includes any gravestone, monument, cenotaph, tablet or monumental inscription and any work ancillary thereto.

3.    Establishment

    The areas of land defined in the First Schedule are established as cemeteries for the purposes of these Bye-laws.

4.    Burials outside cemetery

    No person shall bury or cause to be buried any body elsewhere than in a cemetery.

5.    Permit for burials