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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 119

119.(1) Subject to subsection (2), [the Ministry of Home Affairs] may cause to
be buried or cremated the body of any deceased child who immediately before
his death was in the care of [the Ministry].

(2) [The Ministry of Home Affairs] shall not cause the body to be cremated
under this section where cremation is not in accordance with the practice of
the child's religious persuasion.

(3) Where [the Ministry of Home Affairs] exercise the powers referred to in
subsection (1), they may if at the time of his death the child had not
attained the age of sixteen recover as a civil debt due to them from any
parent of the child any expenses incurred by them under that subsection less
any amount received by [the Ministry] by way of death grant in respect of that
death [under section32 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975].

(4) Nothing in this section shall affect any enactment regulating or
authorising the burial or cremation of the body of a deceased person.Provision
of hostels for persons under twenty-one.

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