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Permission to bury

Legislative and regulatory references :

 - Chapter 44, 45 and 48 of Law No. 3 of 1957 dated on August 1, 1957 related to organizing the civil status as it was completed and revised with the subsequent texts.

- Chapter 76 of the Basic Law on Municipalities No. 33 dated on May 14, 1975, as completed and revised by subsequent texts.

- Law No. 12 of 1997 dated on February 25, 1997 on graves and burial places.

- Ordinance No. 1326 of 1997 dated on July 7, 1997, on how to prepare graves, determine burial and burial or mortuary exhortations.

- Publication issued by the Interior Ministry under No. 86 dated on November 3, 1997

Conditions for having the service : 

After death and before the burial

The required documents :

- A medical certificate stating that the death took place in natural conditions

- Authorization from the prosecutor if the death took place in unusual or mysterious circumstances.

- Determining security services in case of an unnatural death

- Costs employed for the required document

Filing placement :

- Civil Status service in the municipality or the municipal department

- The delegation outside the municipal area

Placement for having the service :

- Civil Status service in the municipality or the municipal department

- The delegation outside the municipal area

Immediately

- If the death is suspicious, or is the result of violence, an accident, or in any other abnormal circumstance, permission to bury is only delivered according to the report written by the National Security services.

- In case of transporting a corpse from one place to another, the civil status officer, who will accept the corpse at his place of residence, prepares the permission for burial on the basis of the documents accompanying the corpse (medical certificate and death certificate) without further searching for the causes of death.

- Anyone who buries a dead without permission to be buried will be punished with imprisonment and sin.