Tasmanian Numbered Acts

BURIAL AND CREMATION ACT 2002 (NO. 4 OF 2002)

- Act 4 of 2002
- Royal Assent 30 May 2002

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 - Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Interpretation
   4.      Application of Act to mausoleums
   5.      Crown to be bound
   6.      Application of this Act

   PART 2 - Crematoria and cemeteries Division 1 - Existing and
   proposed crematoria and cemeteries

   7.      Existing crematoria and cemeteries
   8.      Power to establish crematoria and cemeteries
   9.      Notification as to proposed management of crematorium or cemetery
   10.     Objection by Director of Local Government
   11.     Hearing of objections

           Division 2 - Management of crematoria

   12.     Duties and powers of crematorium managers
   13.     Equipment and apparatus
   14.     Closure of crematorium for reasons of public health or public safety
   15.     Access to crematorium
   16.     Religious and cultural ceremonies
   17.     Duties of manager on closure of crematorium

           Division 3 - Management of cemeteries

   18.     Cemetery to be held in trust
   19.     Duties and powers of cemetery managers
   20.     Monuments, &c.
   21.     Requirement to remove monuments
   22.     Religious and cultural ceremonies and original distribution
   23.     Exclusive right of burial
   24.     Saving for interment rights
   25.     Application of revenue of cemetery
   26.     Insufficient revenue for maintenance of cemetery

           Division 4 - Register of crematoria and cemeteries

   27.     Register of crematoria and cemeteries

   PART 3 - Closure and disposal of cemeteries Division 1 - Closure
   of cemeteries

   28.     Closure of cemeteries for reasons of public health or public safety
   29.     Disused cemeteries
   30.     Closed cemeteries laid out as parks or gardens

           Division 2 - Disposal of land used as cemetery

   31.     Land no longer required for cemetery

           Division 3 - Management of closed cemeteries

   32.     Assumption of management of cemeteries
   33.     Cemetery manager to deal with closed cemetery
   34.     Conditions for removal of human remains
   35.     Land for re-interment to be made available
   36.     Exhumation and re-interment of human remains
   37.     Activities consistent with quiet recreation

           Division 4 - Exhumation and reopening of graves

   38.     Exhumation of human remains
   39.     Reopening of graves

   PART 4 - Other disposal of human remains

   40.     Use of Aboriginal land for Aboriginal cremations
   41.     Interment otherwise than in cemetery
   42.     Disposal of human remains at sea

   PART 5 - Prescribed businesses

   43.     Carrying on prescribed business
   44.     Notification to Director of Local Government as to prescribed
           business
   45.     Hearing of objections
   46.     Unlawfully carrying on prescribed business
   47.     Existing prescribed businesses
   48.     Register of prescribed businesses

   PART 6 - Miscellaneous and supplemental

   49.     Unlawfully managing crematorium or cemetery
   50.     Offences
   51.     Powers of authorised officers to enter premises
   52.     Copies of code of practice to be made available
   53.     Delegation by Director of Public Health
   54.     Regulations
   55.     Administration of Act
   56.     Anatomy Act 1964 amended
   57.     Anglican Church of Australia Constitution Act 1973 amended
   58.     Local Government (Building and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1993
           amended
   59.     Police Offences Act 1935 amended
   60.     Southern Regional Cemetery Act 1981 amended
   61.     Cremation Act 1934 repealed


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