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CEMETRIES, CREMATORIA & FUNERAL UNDERTAKERS BY-LAW

Posted 20 July 2021

The Umzimvubu Local Municipality has published, in terms of section 156(2) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, read with section 11(3)(m) of the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act 32 of 2000, the By-Laws relating to cemeteries, crematoria & funeral undertakers. The By-Law regulates, inter alia, the municipality’s obligation to regulate the establishment and management of cemeteries, burials, re-opening graves and exhumation and funeral undertakers.