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Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897

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63Body of person dying of infectious disease in hospital, &c. to be removed only for burial.

(1)If a person dies in a hospital or place of temporary accommodation for the sick from any infectious disease, and the medical officer, or any legally qualified medical practitioner, certifies that iu his opinion it is desirable, in order to prevent the risk of communicating such disease or of spreading infection, that the body be not removed from such hospital or place except for the purpose of being forthwith buried, it shall not be lawful for any person to remove the body except for that purpose ; and the body when taken out of such hospital or place shall be forthwith taken direct to the place of burial and there buried.

(2)If any person wilfully offends against this section he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds

(3)Nothing in this section shall prevent the removal of a dead body from a hospital to a mortuary, and such mortuary shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed part of such hospital,

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