Queensland Consolidated Acts

LAND ACT 1994 - SECT 83

83 Exhumations

(1) If a local government has not made a local law about authorising the exhumation of human remains from trust land for cemetery purposes, the Minister, on the written application of a person, may give written approval to the exhumation of the human remains.

(2) A person improperly deals with human remains under the Criminal Code , section 236 if the person exhumes human remains from trust land for cemetery purposes other than under—

(a) an approval of the Minister; or

(b) a local law or another Act.

(3) To avoid any doubt, it is declared that in this section—

"exhume" includes take out of a place of interment, whether above or below ground.