Standard cemetery operating procedures

Current

(1)

The licensee of a cemetery must make and comply with written procedures for the cemetery (the standard cemetery operating procedures) including procedures for the following:

(a)

allocating a unique identifying number for the human remains of each deceased person buried at the facility;

(b)

transporting and moving human remains at the cemetery;

(c)

burying human remains in a site at the cemetery;

(d)

exhuming human remains from a site at the cemetery;

(e)

interring cremated remains in a site at the cemetery;

(f)

disinterring cremated remains from a site at the cemetery;

(g)

resolving complaints to the licensee about any activities mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (f);

(h)

anything else prescribed by regulation.

(2)

A person commits an offence if the person—

(a)

is the licensee of a cemetery; and

(b)

does not make the standard cemetery operating procedures.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(3)

A person commits an offence if the person—

(a)

is the licensee of a cemetery; and

(b)

does not comply with the standard cemetery operating procedures.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(4)

A person commits an offence if the person—

(a)

is the licensee of a cemetery; and

(b)

does not review the standard operating procedures at least every 2 years.

Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units.

(5)

An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.

This Act’s bill:Explanatory statement Second reading speech

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59 Standard cemetery operating procedures