LOBATSE TOWN COUNCIL (CEMETERY) BYE-LAWS

(under regulations 34 and 35)

(29th September, 1978)

ARRANGEMENT OF BYE-LAWS

    BYE-LAWS

    1.    Citation

    2.    Interpretation

    3.    Establishment

    4.    Burials outside cemetery

    5.    Burials without permit

    6.    Application for burial permits

    7.    Fees

    8.    Dimensions of graves

    9.    Body to be buried in coffin

    10.    Coffin to be covered

    11.    Graves to be numbered and burials registered

    12.    Restriction on erection of memorial work on graves

    13.    Exhumations

    14.    Restriction of number of bodies in one grave

    15.    Hours of opening of cemeteries

    16.    Closing of cemeteries

    17.    Exercise of control of cemeteries by caretakers

    18.    Offences within cemeteries

    19.    Penalties

        First Schedule - Areas Established as Cemeteries

        Second Schedule - Burial Permit

        Third Schedule - Burial Fees

        Fourth Schedule - Grave Dimensions

S.I. 104, 1978.

1.    Citation

    These Bye-laws may be cited as the Lobatse Town 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*Originally made under the Township Act now repealed, these regulations have been continued under s 94(2) of the Local Government Act, 2013.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—

    "the caretaker" means the person designated by the Town Council as the caretaker of a particular cemetery;

    "cemetery" means an area established as a cemetery by bye-law 3;

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

    "memorial work" means any gravestone, monument, cenotaph, tablet or monumental inscription and any work ancillary thereto;

    "Town Clerk" means the Town Clerk of the Lobatse Town Council;

    "Town Council" means the Lobatse Town Council.

3.    Establishment

    Each of the areas specified in the First Schedule is hereby established as a cemetery.

4.    Burials outside cemetery

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

5.    Burials without permit