Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsPower to authorize the removal of unclaimed bodies, for post-mortem examinations and anatomical research
| 12. Where any dead body is lying unclaimed in any hospital or other institution for over seven days from the date of death, the prescribed officer in such hospital or other institution may authorize the removal of such dead body for any post-mortem examination, and thereafter to any prescribed institution for any anatomical research. |