Local Government Act 1976 · Updated to 1 Dec 2012 · Part XI · Burial Places, Crematoria and Exhumation
95. Penalty for unlawful burials
Feedback & supportExcept as provided for in subsection 94(3), any person who buries or cremates or causes, procures or suffers to be buried or cremated any corpse or the remains of any corpse or prepares any place to be used for the burial or cremating of a corpse in or upon any place, not being a burial ground or crematorium provided by the local authority under subsection 94(1) or a burial ground or crematorium licensed under subsection (2) thereof, or in or upon any burial ground or crematorium which has been closed by order of the local authority under section 96 shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment and the Court may, by a written order under its seal, direct such person within a time to be fixed in such order—
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to remove the corpse or remains of the corpse in respect of which the offence has been committed from the place where it has been buried or cremated to a burial ground or crematorium provided or licensed by the local authority under this Act; and
to remove any structure erected in contravention of the provisions of this section and to restore the ground to its original state.
Any person who refuses or neglects to obey such order shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment and to a further fine not exceeding one hundred ringgit for each day during which such offence is continued after conviction and the Court may order the execution thereof by the local authority at the expense of such person.