Cemeteries and Crematoria Act 2013

The council may, after considering and determining the objections made under clause 4, make application to the Minister that the whole or any part of the land referred to in the resolution be declared a public park.

An application under subclause (1) must be made in writing addressed to the Minister and must be accompanied by the following—

details of the proposal to convert the cemetery into a public park in the nature of a rest park,

information, so far as it can be obtained, indicating, in respect of the cemetery—

the total number of burials, and

the dates of the first and last burials, and

the number of monuments, and

the number of monuments which have been provided or maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and

whether the monuments are proposed to be removed, re-arranged within the cemetery, relocated in another cemetery, or disposed of, and

the number of outstanding exclusive rights to burial, and

the number of graves for which money is held for perpetual care, and

the amount of money held for the perpetual care of graves, and

the amount of money held otherwise than for the perpetual care of graves, and

the nature and proposed future use of any building erected on the land,

estimates of the costs of—

the conversion of the cemetery into a public park, and

the future annual maintenance of the land,

evidence of compliance by the council with clause 3 (2),

copies of all objections received by the council pursuant to clause 4 and of the council’s determinations in respect of those objections, and

such other information as may be prescribed.

The council must furnish such additional or other information as the Minister, by request in writing, may require for the purpose of considering the application under subclause (1).