Cemeteries and Crematoria Act 2013

The functions of the Cemeteries Agency include the following—

to assess current and future interment needs and develop planning strategies for cemetery space to meet those needs,

to provide advice or make recommendations to the Minister in relation to the sustainable use of cemetery and crematorium space and capacity,

to promote environmentally sustainable practices in the interment industry,

to develop, approve and promote codes of practice for cemeteries and crematoria and report on adoption of those codes by the interment industry,

to provide advice or make recommendations to the Minister on the establishment, implementation or alteration of interment industry schemes,

to regulate the provision of services in relation to interment matters that are subject to interment industry schemes,

to manage the resolution of complaints about cemetery operators that may involve contraventions by cemetery operators of this Act, regulations or interment industry schemes made under this Act, or licences granted under this Act,

to keep under review the policies, operating procedures and activities of the interment industry, including cemeteries, crematoria, providers of funeral goods and services, and operators of funeral funds,

to collect information and carry out research as is necessary to exercise its functions.

The Cemeteries Agency must, within 12 months after it is constituted, prepare a strategic plan outlining its key objectives and time frames for implementation of those objectives.

The Cemeteries Agency must publish the strategic plan in the Gazette.

In exercising its functions, the Cemeteries Agency is to have regard to the objects of this Act.