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HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1972 - SECT 39

39.(1) The Ministry may cause to be buried or cremated the body of a deceased
person who, immediately before his death, was being provided with
accommodation under this Order by the Ministry.

(2) The Ministry may recover from the estate of such deceased person, or from
any person who, for the purposes of this Order, was liable to maintain the
deceased person immediately before his death, expenses incurred under
paragraph (1), less any amount received by the Ministry by way of [death grant
in respect of that death under section 32 of the Social Security (Northern
Ireland) Act 1975.]

(3) Where the relatives of any deceased person are not known or are, by reason
of their absence, poverty or otherwise, unable to defray all or part of the
expenses of burying or cremating that person, the Ministry may defray the
whole or part of such expenses.

(4) Nothing in this Article shall affect any enactment regulating or
authorising the burial, cremation or anatomical examination of the body of a
deceased person; and a body shall not be cremated under this Article where the
Ministry has reason to believe that cremation would be contrary to the wishes
of the deceased.

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