Exhumation licence required to move remains to another location
158 Exhumation licence required to move remains to another location
If a person wishes to remove human remains from a place of interment and re-inter those human remains at another location, the person must obtain an exhumation licence.
An exhumation licence is required under subsection (1) whether or not the proposed re-interment is—
within the public cemetery where the human remains are currently interred; or
outside the public cemetery where the human remains are currently interred.
This section does not apply to the removal or re-interment of cremated human remains or body parts by—
a cemetery trust in a public cemetery for which it is responsible; or
the holder of a right of interment in accordance with this Act.
S. 158A inserted by No. 42/2005 s. 7.
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