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Arrangements for burials.
[1993 s185(1); 2005 (SW&P) s23 & Sch 1]
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206.—(1) The Executive may provide for the burial of any of the following persons—
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(a) a person who died within any of its functional areas and in respect of whose burial suitable arrangements are not otherwise being made,
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(b) a person who has been drowned and cast ashore within any of its functional areas or who has otherwise perished and been found dead within any of those areas and (in either case) whose body has not been claimed for burial.
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| [1993 s185(2); 2005 (SW&P) s23 & Sch 1] |
(2) The Executive may, in any case in which it thinks proper, bring into and bury in any of its functional areas the body of a person eligible for supplementary welfare allowance who has died outside that functional area.
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| [1993 s185(3); 2005 (SW&P) s23 & Sch 1] |
(3) The Executive may defray all expenses necessarily incurred in the burial under this section of a person or in the bringing of the body of a person into any of its functional areas for burial.
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| [1993 s185(4); 2005 (SW&P) s23 & Sch 1] |
(4) Where the Executive incurs under this section expenses in relation to the body of a deceased person, it may obtain repayment of those expenses from the estate of the deceased person or from any person who was liable to maintain the deceased person immediately before his or her death.
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