SELEBI-PHIKWE TOWN COUNCIL (CEMETERY) BYE-LAWS

(under regulations 34 and 35)

(11th January, 1974)

ARRANGEMENT OF BYE-LAWS

    BYE-LAWS

    1.    Citation

    2.    Interpretation

    3.    Establishment of cemeteries

    4.    Burial in cemetery

    5.    Burial permit

    6.    Burial fees

    7.    Dimensions of graves

    8.    Body to be buried in coffin

    9.    Covering of coffin or body

    10.    Graves to be numbered and burials registered

    11.    Memorial work

    12.    Exhumations and reopenings

    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.    Penalty

        First Schedule

        Second Schedule

S.I. 1, 1974,
S.I. 27, 2004.

1.    Citation

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*Originally made under the Township Act now repealed, these regulations have been continued under s 94(2) of the Local Government Act, 2013.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

    "adult" means a person other than a child;

    "caretaker" means any person so designated by the council;

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

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

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

3.    Establishment of cemeteries

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

4.    Burial in cemetery

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