(a) The local registrar, or his deputy, shall obtain personal and statistical particulars from the person best qualified to supply them, over the signature and address of his informant. He shall then see that the necessary medical certificate of the cause of death is properly accomplished, and that the other particulars necessary to complete the record are entered. He shall then cause the undertaker, or person acting as such to endorse upon the record, over his signature, and address, the date and place of removal or burial. He shall then issue to the undertaker, or person acting as such, the permit for burial, removal or other disposition of the body. The undertaker or person acting as such shall deliver the burial permit to the person in charge of the place of burial, before interring or otherwise disposing of the body, or shall attach the removal permit to the box containing the body, when shipped by any common carrier, such permit to accompany the body to its destination.
(b) If the interment or other disposition of the body is to be made within the Virgin Islands, the wording of the burial or removal permit may be limited to a statement by the local registrar, and over his signature, that a satisfactory certificate of death having been filed by him, as required by law, permission is granted to inter, remove or dispose otherwise of the body, stating the name, age, sex, and other necessary details upon the form prescribed by the registrar, provided, however, that if death be due to a dangerous contagious disease it shall be so stated on the burial permit, before it is issued.