ADDOLORATA CEMETERY REGULATIONS

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 10.04

ADDOLORATA CEMETERY REGULATIONS

29th April, 1910;

11th February, 1916;

9th November, 1933

GOVERNMENT NOTICE 107 of 1910, as amended by Act XIII of 1983,

GOVERNMENT NOTICE 29 of 1916, as amended by Act XIII of 1983, and

GOVERNMENT NOTICE 467 of 1933, as amended by Government Notice

167 of 1935, consolidated, and as amended by Legal Notice 407 of 2007.

Preliminary

The title of these Regulations is Addolorata Cemetery

Regulations.

Cemetery regulations

The Addolorata Cemetery shall be open to the public on

any day from 7.00a.m to noon and from 2.00p.m to sunset; no

interments shall take place out of these hours and no person shall

be allowed to enter or remain in the cemetery except for urgent

reasons.

No vehicle shall be allowed to enter the cemetery except

the hearse, the parish priest’s vehicle, and other vehicles carrying

materials for use in the cemetery; in special cases the

Superintendent of Public Health or the Capuchin Father in charge

may grant permission for visiting the cemetery in a conveyance.

Except in very urgent cases, no works or repairs connected

with graves and chapels shall be allowed between the 20th of

October and the 10th of November of each year.

It is forbidden to pluck flowers, to smoke, or to carry fire

arms in the cemetery: provided that the latter prohibition shall not

apply in the case of funerals of members of the Armed Forces of

Malta.

Watching of corpses

Corpses which are conveyed to the cemetery before the

lapse of twenty-four hours from death shall be kept in the mortuary

annexed to the cemetery and shall be watched by a person duly

approved by the Superintendent of Public Health.

A fee of twenty-nine cents (0.29) for such watch shall be

charged on application for the permission referred to in article 143

of the Code of Police Laws.

Removal of corpses

Except in cases of absolute necessity, the removal of

corpses from graves to the charnel-house in the cemetery shall take

place during the first seven days of any of the months of January,

April, July or October, during such hours as shall be fixed by the

Superintendent of Public Health.

The removals referred to in regulation 8 of these

Regulations shall be carried out under the supervision of an officer

appointed by the Superintendent of Public Health; and a fee of

twelve cents (0.12) shall be charged for such supervision if the

removal is effected on the days specified in regulation 8, and of

forty cents (0.40) on other days.

No persons other than those appointed by the

Superintendent of Public Health shall be employed in carrying out

any such removal, and a fee of forty-seven cents (0.47) shall be

charged for such service.

A single fee for supervision shall be charged collectively

on all removals taking place during the same day.