Application for interment or cremation of body parts
151 Application for interment or cremation of body parts
A person who wishes body parts to be interred or cremated in a public cemetery may apply to the cemetery trust responsible for that public cemetery for an authority under section 150.
An application under subsection (1) must contain the prescribed information from a prescribed person.
For the purposes of subsection (2), prescribed person means—
a registered medical practitioner who treated the person to whom the body part belonged; or
a registered medical practitioner of the hospital where the person to whom the body part belonged was treated; or
S. 151(3)(c) substituted by No. 77/2008 s. 129(Sch. 2 item 4.10).
a coroner; or
a person or class of person prescribed for the purposes of this section.
This provision refers to the regulations (prescribed information
, prescribed person
). Made under this Act:
- Cemeteries and Crematoria Regulations 2025 · under section 180
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