COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION CEMETERIES RULES

COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION CEMETERIES RULES

COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION
CEMETERIES RULES

(Cap. 132, section 117)

[28 January 1977.1

1. These rules may be cited as the Commonwealth War Graves
Commission Cemeteries Rules.

2. In these rules-

'cemetery' means any Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Cemetery specified in Part IVA of the Fifth Schedule to the
Ordinance.

3. No person shall, without the consent in writing of the Director of
Urban Services, permit any dog or other animal to enter any cemetery.

4. No person shall in any cemetery-

(a)sell or let for hire, or expose for sale or letting for hire, any
article or thing;

(b)post, affix or distribute any handbill, card, circular or
advertisement of any kind whatsoever;

(e)hold, promote or take part in any public meeting, other than a
meeting of a religious or commemorative nature relating to the
death of any person whose human remains have been buried
or otherwise disposed of in that cemetery;

(d)wilfully disturb or interfere with any funeral service or
procession or any religious or commemorative meeting;

(e)discharge any fire-arm, except in the proper performance of a
military funeral or commemorative meeting;

wilfully or carelessly deface, injure, soil or defile any wall or
fence in or enclosing the cemetery, or any part thereof, or any
grave, barrier, railing, post, seat, boundary stone, monument,
building, headstone, tablet, ornament, tree, shrub, or
ornamental plant;

(g) climb any wall or fence in or enclosing the cemetery, or any
part thereof, or any tree, barrier, railing, pole, monument
headstone, tablet or ornament; or

(h) behave in a noisy or unseemly manner.
L.N. 24/77. Citation. Interpretation. Animals. Conduct and behaviour.

L.N. 24/77. Citation. Interpretation. Animals. Conduct and behaviour.

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