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I-11 - Burial Act

Section 8
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8. In addition to what is or may be prescribed by the regulations of the Government, respecting the bodies of persons dying of contagious diseases, the body of no person who has died of asiatic cholera, typhus, small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, scarlatina or glanders shall be interred in a church or chapel or deposited in a public vault.
The body of any person dying of any of the diseases enumerated in this section must be transferred directly from the place of death to the cemetery.
R. S. 1964, c. 310, s. 9.
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