Health Act 1911

Model By-laws — Handling of Dead Bodies

 

Model By-laws — Handling of Dead Bodies

Contents

1.Provision of masks and gloves for handling dead bodies1

2. Disinfected shroud to be used1

3. Decomposing bodies to be placed in closed containers1

Notes

Compilation table2

Provisions that have not come into operation2

 

Health Act 1911

Model By-laws — Handling of Dead Bodies

Precautions to be taken in the Handling of Dead Bodies

1.Provision of masks and gloves for handling dead bodies

(a)The keeper of any private hospital or the person in charge of any public hospital or any undertaker shall provide the necessary gloves and masks for use by persons handling the body of any person who has died of infectious disease.

(b)Every person handling such body shall, while so doing, use the gloves and masks provided for that purpose.

2. Disinfected shroud to be used

The keeper of any private hospital or the person in charge of any public hospital shall, as soon as possible after the death of any person from an infectious disease, cause the body to be wrapped in a shroud which has first been soaked with a disinfecting solution. The said keeper or person in charge shall also, as soon as possible, cause the body to be placed in a coffin or other container, properly closed, before removal from his premises.

3. Decomposing bodies to be placed in closed containers

The keeper of a private hospital or the person in charge of any public hospital shall cause any body which is in an advanced stage of decomposition or likely to be a nuisance, to be placed in a coffin or other container properly closed, before removal from his premises.

 

Notes

1.This is a compilation of the Model By‑laws Handling Dead Bodies and includes the amendments referred to in the following Table 1a.

Compilation table

Citation

Gazettal

Commencement

Model By‑laws Handling Dead Bodies

3 Aug 1917 p.1173

3 Aug 1917

1aOn the date as at which this compilation was prepared, provisions referred to in the following table had not come into operation and were therefore not included in this compilation. For the text of the provisions see the endnotes referred to in the table.

Provisions that have not come into operation

Short title

Number and year

Assent

Commencement

Public Health (Consequential Provisions) Act 2016 s. 205(e) 2

19 of 2016

25 Jul 2016

24 Jan 2017 (see s. 2(1)(c) and Gazette 10 Jan 2017 p. 165)

2On the date as at which this compilation was prepared, the Public Health (Consequential Provisions) Act 2016 s. 205(e) had not come into operation. It reads as follows:

 

205.Subsidiary legislation repealed

This subsidiary legislation is repealed:

(e)the Model By‑laws ‑ Handling Dead Bodies;