Victorian Current Acts

CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIA ACT 2003 - SECT 85

    (1)     At least 12 months before the expiry of a right of interment for interring cremated human remains for 25 years, the cemetery trust responsible for the public cemetery to which the right of interment applies must take reasonable steps to notify the holder of that right of interment that the right of interment will expire at the end of 25 years after it was granted.

    (2)     A notification under subsection (1) must advise the holder of the right of interment that—

        (a)     under section 87, the holder may request the cemetery trust to—

              (i)     extend the right of interment for a further 25 years; or

              (ii)     convert the right of interment to a perpetual right of interment; and

S. 85(2)(b) amended by No. 4/2015 s. 5(1)(a).

        (b)     unless the right of interment relates to cremated human remains of a deceased identified veteran, if the right of interment is not extended or converted to a perpetual right of interment, the cemetery trust may—

              (i)     remove interred cremated human remains from their current place of interment; and

              (ii)     dispose of those cremated human remains within the cemetery grounds; and

S. 85(2)(b)(iii) amended by No. 4/2015 s. 5(1)(b).

              (iii)     remove any memorial relating to those cremated human remains; and

S. 85(2)(c) inserted by No. 4/2015 s. 5(2).

        (c)     in the case of a right of interment that relates to cremated human remains of a deceased identified veteran, if that right is not extended or converted to a perpetual right of interment, the cemetery trust may—

              (i)     leave those interred cremated human remains undisturbed in perpetuity and convert the right of interment to a perpetual right of interment; or

              (ii)     remove those interred cremated human remains from their current place of interment and re-inter them at another location within the cemetery grounds and—

    (A)     remove any memorial at the current place of interment; and

    (B)     re-establish the memorial at the location of the re-interment or establish a new equivalent memorial at that location.

    (3)     A notification under subsection (1) must be in writing.

S. 86(1) amended by No. 4/2015 s. 6(2) (ILA s. 39B(1)).