A.D. 1926.

Penalties.

Definitions.

(c) the person or officer who is to be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be the person effecting the disposal in relation to the disposal of a body by cremation.

(2) The Minister of Health, with the concurrence of 5 the Secretary of State, may make regulations

(a) prescribing the person or officer who is to be
deemed for the purposes of this Act to be the
person effecting the disposal in relation to the
disposal of a body by any means other than 10
cremation;

(b) prescribing the period and form of notice to be
given to the coroner of an intention to remove
a body abroad; and as to the procedure upon
embarkation and the notification of the registrar 15
as to the date and place of such embarkation
(c) imposing any conditions and restrictions with
respect to means of disposal otherwise than
by burial or cremation or with respect to em-
balming or preservation which may appear to be 20
desirable in the interests of public health or
public safety.

(3) Save as otherwise provided in this section, the
term "
prescribed" in this Act has the same meaning
as in section forty-eight of the Births and Deaths 25
Registration Act, 1874.

10. Any person contravening any of the provisions of this Act in respect of which no penalty is expressly imposed shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.

11. In this Act, unless the context otherwise re

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'disposal means disposal by burial, cremation
or any other lawful means, and disposed
of" has a corresponding meaning;
person effecting the disposal" means in relation
to a particular means of disposal, the person
or officer prescribed in that behalf by regula-
tions made under this Act and such regulations
may prescribe different persons or officers for 40
the purpose of different provisions of this Act;

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"still-born" and "still-birth" shall apply to any A.D. 1926.
child which has issued forth from its mother
after the twenty-eight weeks of pregnancy and
which did at any time after being completely
expelled from its mother, breathe or show any
other signs of life.

short title
and com-

12. (1) Section seventeen of the Births and Deaths Repeals, Registration Act, 1874, section eleven of the Burial extent, Law Amendment Act, 1880, and subsection (6) of 10 section eighteen of the Coroners Act, 1887, are hereby mencement. repealed.

43 & 44 Vict.

(2) This Act shall not apply to Northern Ireland c. 41. and shall not apply to Scotland save as regards the 50 & 51 Vict. dead body which has been removed into Scotland of

15 any person dying in England or Wales.

(3) This Act may be cited as the Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926, and the Births and Deaths Registration Acts, 1836 to 1901, and this Act may be cited together as the Births and Deaths Registration 20 Acts, 1836 to 1926.

(4) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven.

C. 71.

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