Victorian Current Acts

CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA ACT 2003 - SECT 77

    (1)     A holder of a right of interment for interring human remains in a particular place of interment—

        (a)     may inter human remains at that place of interment; and

        (b)     may establish or alter a memorial at that place of interment; and

        (c)     if the human remains are cremated human remains in a receptacle, may remove those remains from the place of interment; and

        (d)     if the human remains are body parts, may remove those body parts from the place of interment.

    (2)     A holder of a right of interment for interring human remains in a public grave—

        (a)     may inter human remains in a public grave in the cemetery; and

        (b)     may place or alter a memorial on the public grave.

    (3)     The holder of a right of interment must obtain the approval of the cemetery trust before exercising any of the powers referred to in subsection (1) or (2).

    (4)     On the application of a holder of a right of interment to exercise any of the powers referred to in subsection (1)(c) or (d), the cemetery trust may—

        (a)     authorise the exercise of that power; and

        (b)     impose such terms and conditions on the exercise of that power as the cemetery trust thinks fit.