Burial and Cremation Act 2019

The Chief Magistrate may authorise the re-opening of the place of interment of a deceased person whose death has been the subject of an investigation under the Coroners Act 1995.

If, on the reopening of a place of interment of human remains, an exhumation of the remains is intended, an authorisation under section 30 is required before the exhumation is performed.

Despite subsections (1) and (2), a cemetery manager may reopen a place of interment of human remains without an authorisation under subsection (1) if it is not intended to remove any human remains from the interment.