Code of Police Laws (Cap. 10), article 136

136. (1) No cemetery shall be const ructed at a distance less than one hundred and eighty-three metres from any house intende d for habitation: Provided that where, notwithstanding such distance, there may be a danger to public health or a nuisance to the neighbour s, such distance shall be increased , and where considered expedien t in the particular circumstances of a given case such distance shal l be reduced, in each case as the Gen eral Services Board shall direc t. Power of Superintendent of Public Health to allow extension of existing cemeteries. (2) Nevertheless, it shall be law ful for the Superintendent of Public Health to allow an extension of any cemetery constructed before the first of January nineteen hundred and thirty-two, although the distance of any suc h cemetery or of such extension from any house intended for habitation be less than that mentio ned in sub-article (1), if he consid ers such extension to be necess ary for the exigencies o f the district. Boundary-walls and upkeep of cemeteries.