These Mortuary Police Regulations govern the activities and services related to:
- Reporting the cause of death and ascertaining deaths (Chapter I)
- Period of observation of corpses (Chapter II)
- Observation depots and mortuaries (Chapter III)
- Transport of cadavers (Chapter IV)
- Diagnostic investigation (Chapter V)
- Release of cadavers for study purposes (Chapter VI)
- Removal of cadaver parts for therapeutic transplantation (Chapter VII)
- Autopsies and treatments for the preservation of the corpse (Chapter VIII)
- General provisions on cemetery services (Chapter IX)
- Construction of cemeteries. Cemetery plans. General technical provisions (Chapter X)
- Mortuary (Chapter XI)
- Autopsy room (Chapter XII)
- Common ossuary (Chapter XIII)
- Inhumation (Chapter XIV)
- Burial (Chapter XV)
- Cremation (Chapter XVI)
- Exhumation and Burial (Chapter XVII)
- Private burials in cemeteries (Chapter XVIII)
- Suppression of cemeteries (Chapter XIX)
- Special wards within cemeteries (Chapter XX)
- Private burials outside cemeteries (Chapter XXI)
- Final and transitional provisions (Chapter XXII)