What are the rules for the return of ashes after local cremation in the case of deaths outside the country?

Anyone who dies in a foreign place, his body will be disposed of as soon as possible, in principle, locally and nearby. If there are special circumstances that require the body to be transported to other places, the family of the deceased should apply to the funeral management department above the county, and after consent and certification, the body will be transported by the funeral parlor's special vehicle.

According to the "State eight ministries on the management of corpse transportation of a number of provisions" stipulates:

I. The international transportation of corpses to implement a unified centralized management. In the future, wherever bodies and funeral activities are transported within or outside China, the International Corpse Transportation Network Service Center of the China Funeral Association and funeral parlors around the country will be responsible for the undertaking, and no other departments (including insurance or agency agencies set up by foreigners in China) will be permitted to undertake this business without authorization.

Two, in the cremation area or burial reform area of the deceased, their families should contact the local funeral management department in a timely manner, by the funeral management department in accordance with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Civil Affairs "on the use of, and to strengthen the work of the cause of death statistics notice" [WeiTuFa (1992) No. 1] spirit, with the health, public security departments issued by the "residents of the death of the Funeral Certificate for the transportation of corpses for the procedures, and Cremation or burial in accordance with the relevant provisions of the local funeral management. Transportation of corpses, except in special circumstances, must be undertaken by the funeral parlor, any unit or individual shall not be undertaken without authorization.

Three, where the death of a different place, the body, in principle, the nearest local, as soon as possible. If there are special circumstances that need to be transported to other places, the deceased's family should apply to the county above the funeral management department, after consent and issue a certificate, by the funeral home special vehicles.

Four, health, public security, railroads, transportation, civil aviation and other relevant departments, to assist the civil affairs departments to manage the transportation of corpses. Medical institutions should actively assist the funeral management department to strengthen the management of hospital mortuaries of corpses. It is strictly prohibited to receive and transport corpses privately. The bodies of those suffering from virulent infectious diseases should be quarantined, and the families of the deceased should be urged to report to the funeral management department within 24 hours. Where there is no hospital death certificate, no public security police station cancellation of household registration certificate, no funeral management department to transport the body of the certificate, and transport the body to a different place, the railroad, transportation and civil aviation departments will not be transported, the public security departments have the right to prohibit traffic.

Fifth, foreigners, overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots, requesting the body or ashes out of the country or into the Chinese territory for burial, should be declared by their relatives, their embassies and consulates in China or the reception unit, by the death of the local or origin or the place of burial of the body of the province (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) civil affairs, overseas Chinese Affairs and foreign affairs departments agreed to the Ministry of Health, "Implementation of the Chinese People's Republic of China * * * and the country's health supervision methods of the state border control point [several provisions of the] [

Some of the measures for health supervision. Several Provisions on the Implementation of the Chinese People's *** and State Border Crossing Sanitary Supervision Measures" [(1983) Guardianship and Prevention No. 5] and the General Administration of Customs "on the management of corpses, coffins and ashes in and out of the country" [(84) Department of the word 540] for the entry and exit of corpses and ashes for the formalities by the China Funeral Association International Corpse Transportation Network Service Center or a local agency set up in the country to carry the corpses.

6, provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Civil Affairs, Public Security, Health, Transportation Department (Bureau), the Office of Foreign Affairs, and railroads, customs, civil aviation departments and the China Funeral Association International Corpse Transportation Network Service Center can be based on the provisions of this regulation to formulate specific implementation measures.

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p>Offense case: the man converted the minibus into an ambulance to transport the body? Was fined 4,700 yuan

December 17, 2014, the police investigated and dealt with a cottage version of the ambulance, converted from a small ordinary bus. The car appearance and ambulance is very similar, without careful identification is really difficult to see clearly.

December 17, 2014 17:30 or so, the traffic police brigade of a squadron of police patrol to the Qingyun Road Xiangyang Road intersection, found a Lu J3*** ambulance, the car is in poor condition, through the window to see no one inside the car. The police said that the vehicle has been reported by the public, there are traffic violations.

When the police check the vehicle, see the car within the ambulance facilities are extremely simple, in addition to stretcher and other items, even the basic rescue equipment is not. After verification, the car is a small ordinary bus, body exterior sprayed with an ambulance logo, and installed lights and sirens, part of the car seats were removed. From the appearance of this "ambulance" and other regular ambulance is very similar.

After interrogation, the driver confessed to the offense of converting the car into an ambulance, saying that converting the minibus into an ambulance is often used to transport corpses and patients.

According to the police, the car illegally changed the shape of the motor vehicle and has been registered relevant data, while illegal installation of signs lamps and lanterns, illegal installation of sirens, safety facilities are incomplete. According to the law to give the driver a fine of 4700 yuan and other penalties.

At present, the cottage "ambulance" has been forced to collect its illegally installed sign lamps and sirens, and ordered to restore the internal seats to their original state

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