Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Where the Board of Councillors, after making, or causing to be made, any local enquiry, is of opinion that any burning or burial ground or other place for:the disposal of the dead has become offensive to, or dangerous to the health of, persons residing in the neighbourhood or for any other reasons to be recorded in writing, it may, with the previous approval of the State Government and by notice in writing, require the owner or the person in charge of such ground or place to close the same from such date as may be specified in the notice. (2) No corpse shall be burnt or buried or otherwise disposed of at the burning or burial ground or place in respect of which a notice has been issued under this section.