Queensland Consolidated Acts

LAND ACT 1994 - SECT 81

81 Application to close or reopen cemetery

(1) The trustee of trust land for cemetery purposes may ask that a cemetery be closed to further burials.

(2) If the Minister is satisfied the cemetery should be closed, the Minister may close the cemetery by gazette notice.

(3) Subsection (2) does not affect a right to be buried in the cemetery if the right existed at the time of the closure.

(4) If asked by the trustees, the Minister, by gazette notice, may reopen the cemetery for burials.

(5) A cemetery that was closed under an Act that has been repealed may be reopened under this Act.