Keeping of register and documents
64 Keeping of register and documents
A cemetery operator must keep all applications, certificates, permits and other documents relating to any cremation carried out by it and mark them with a number corresponding to the number allocated to the cremation in the cemetery operator’s register.
Maximum civil penalty: $2,200.
Those documents (other than the register or any part of it) may be destroyed by the cemetery operator after 15 years from the date of the cremation to which they relate.
When a crematorium is closed, the cemetery operator concerned must send all registers and documents relating to the cremations that have taken place at the crematorium to the Cemeteries Agency or otherwise dispose of them as the Cemeteries Agency may direct.
Maximum civil penalty: $2,200.
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