70. Every person who handles or takes custody of the body of a person whose death results from one of the diseases contemplated in sections 1 and 2 of Minister’s Regulation under the Public Health Act (chapter S-2.2, r. 2) must take the necessary precautionary measures to check the spread of infection during the autopsy, expert examination, transport, embalming, cremation or interment and must ensure the disinfection of the premises, vehicles, objects and other instruments used for such operations.
R.R.Q., 1981, c. P-35, r. 1, s. 70.