L-0.2 - Act respecting medical laboratories and organ and tissue conservation

Section 58 Disposition versions

2019-01-01

58. (Repealed).

1977, c. 47, s. 5; 1984, c. 47, s. 123; 1992, c. 21, s. 375; 1997, c. 77, s. 3; 2016, c. 1, s. 129.

1999-04-01

58. Every physician in charge shall periodically give instructions to the institutions and police departments in his region on the arrangements they are to make in respect of the unclaimed bodies in the region, namely, that they must offer them to the educational institutions, or that they must cause them to be buried or cremated.

The physician in charge may verbally authorize the delivery of an unclaimed body to a person, other than one of the persons contemplated in section 57, who requests it in writing of the funeral or cremation director and who undertakes in writing with one of them to have the body buried or cremated as soon as possible, at his expense.

1977, c. 47, s. 5; 1984, c. 47, s. 123; 1992, c. 21, s. 375; 1997, c. 77, s. 3.

1992-10-01

58. Every physician in charge shall periodically give instructions to the institutions and police departments in his region on the arrangements they are to make in respect of the unclaimed bodies in the region, namely, that they must offer them to the universities, or that they must cause them to be buried or cremated.

The physician in charge may verbally authorize the delivery of an unclaimed body to a person, other than one of the persons contemplated in section 57, who requests it in writing of the funeral or cremation director and who undertakes in writing with one of them to have the body buried or cremated as soon as possible, at his expense.

1977, c. 47, s. 5; 1984, c. 47, s. 123; 1992, c. 21, s. 375.

1984-12-21

58. Every physician in charge shall periodically give instructions to the establishments and police departments in his region on the arrangements they are to make in respect of the unclaimed bodies in the region, namely, that they must offer them to the universities, or that they must cause them to be buried or cremated.

The physician in charge may verbally authorize the delivery of an unclaimed body to a person, other than one of the persons contemplated in section 57, who requests it in writing of the funeral or cremation director and who undertakes in writing with one of them to have the body buried or cremated as soon as possible, at his expense.

1977, c. 47, s. 5; 1984, c. 47, s. 123.

1977-12-31

58. Every physician in charge shall periodically give instructions to the establishments and police departments in his region on the arrangements they are to make in respect of the unclaimed bodies in the region, namely, that they must offer them to the universities, or that they must cause them to be buried or cremated.

However, the physician in charge may, for the purposes of burial or cremation, authorize the delivery of an unclaimed body to a person other than one contemplated in section 57, provided that person requests it of him in writing and undertakes, to the satisfaction of the physician in charge, to have the body buried or cremated as soon as possible.

1977, c. 47, s. 5.